He is so arrogant, he cannot even begin to accept that there might be something wrong with the way he is doing things and through this inflexible belief, he isolates himself from all humans, including the people closest to him, and hold himself above the moral rules of the gods. .
Antigone asserts a different type of power and authority - the moral authority of the gods - which also makes her arrogant and inflexible. Her belief that she is being backed by the power of the gods leads her to the belief that she is above the rule of law. She says to Kreon, "I didn't suppose your decree had strength enough/or you, who are human/to violate the lawful traditions/the gods have not written merel, but made infallible. " (559-563). Antigone also believes her moral authority places above other people. At the beginning of the play she speaks to her sister Ismene about recovering their brother's body from Creon for burial. She says, "When my strength is spent, I will be done./I know I am pleasing those whom I must. " in reference to the gods (114-115). Ismene tries to make Antigone see reason by telling her of the consequences of the burial to which Antigone replies, "Then weakness will be your plea./I am different. I love my brother/and I'm going to bury him, now" (99-101). Antigone completely dismisses all the warnings Ismene gave her and just as Creon attacked Haemon and Teiresias for their wise counsel, Antigone attacks Ismene for not coming with her. Antigone is so convinced this is her divine mission, she believes undertaking it makes her superior to her sister. Later on after Antigone buried her brother and was under arrest Ismene arrived and asked to share in the punishment to which Antigone said, "No, you have no right. You weren't willing to,/and even if you had been I wouldn't have taken you with me" (659-660). In her arrogance and pride, Antigone punishes Ismene because she did not help earlier.
