Weak Sister

I am the oldest of 6 siblings, and as such I have viewed any kind of sibling relationship you can imagine. The Strong sister/weak sister relationship is very real. Usually it seems that the oldest sister would be the strong one, but in my house it was very different. the youngest of three sisters Andrea is by far the most outgoing, risk taking, and anything else that places her in a status of strong. The middle sister Shantel is second most outgoing, which leaves me to question: why would the oldest sister who has had more time to experiment, and put herself out there be the least outgoing? Baffling. Of course nothing to the degree of ismene and antigone has ever occurred in our house; however, if i were to be dead and disgraced the only one who would even thing of burying my stinking corpse against the will of authority would be Andrea.

This leads me to an interesting thought. I actually agree with Creon that his decree can not be disobeyed. While I think his decree may be a bit premature in the context of the two brothers, I still feel that as king he is responsible for laying down the law and as such he must stick to his guns. If he were to just allow antigone to bury her brother against his decree and not do anything by way of punishment, then he would relinquish control of the kingdom. I only point this out Because i feel that Creon is made out to be some sort of evil villain when in fact he is only protecting his past decree. Then again all that is past possesses the present. Looking at George W's so called war, he may have just been better off admitting guilt and wrong doing right away to avoid the catastrophic aftershock that will take our country years to recover from.

Death surrounds us all, even in things basically inconsequential such as pets, we are bound by the only universal constant of death. I have to say that I don't feel too sentimental towards animals because i've never really had any pets that lasted too long, but there is some kind of unspoken need to give ritual burial for even the smalllest of creatures in my cicrle. So in that way I agree with antigone on the burial of her brother. As a survivor of her beloved brother, should have the right to give him ritual death rights. Maybe its the times we live in, or the lack of religious sentimentality, but i still don't think someone's final rights are worth another life. As bad as it seems to leave someone you love out for the vultures, wouldn't you be forced to ask, "If Rotten McDecaying had something to say whouldn't he rather only one of us be dead instead of both?"