"Antigone" serves as reflection on some incredibly uncomfortable truths.

The sacred is born of a denial which demands others suffer for telling the truth.

Creon's fantasy is centered on who he's scared to be, as he doesn't want to feel like someone who failed to act when he had the chance.

Humans understood as rule-bearing, rule-bound creatures does not start with a notion of the "state" or "city," but with family itself.