In the Greek play “Antigone,” Hegel states that Antigone commits suicide in prison due to defying the public law for devoting to family-love. Kreon, who is Antigone’s uncle, has inherited the throne and issued a royal edict banning the burial of her brother who is a traitor in Kreon’s perspective. According to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, I think Antigone and not Kreon is the tragic hero because she self-consciously decides to act family-love on the divine law, which is any law that comes directly from the will of God, overpower human law, which is made by human beings, and enters into the conflict between the divine law and human law. First, Antigone enters into the conflict between the law of King Kreon and the law of the gods, which leads to her death. According to Greek belief, Kreon is a king who believes that he holds all the power to make his city grow strong, and puts in his place to punish someone who breaking the human law. However, Antigone believes that no matter what her brother did, divine law will ultimately overpower human law. As Antigone argues with Kreon, "It was not Zeus who made this proclamation no one knows when first they came to light" (Antigone, 84), Antigone believes that divine law is any law that comes directly from the will of God, in contrast to human law, which is made by human beings. So she self-consciously decides to break the rules due to divine overpower human law. What’s more, according to the paper, "Antigone: Divine Law Vs. Human Law," [1]“In Greek culture, the spirit of a body that is not buried by sundown on the day that it died cannot find rest but is doomed to walk the earth”[1]. So she feels that she must commit acts of sisterly love towards her brother to bury her brother according to the Greek culture and divine law makes her feel painful if she does not bury her brother, as she spoke to her sister “This fate is in no way painful. But if /I let the