Antigone: Obedience to one's moralityAccording to the Bible, after Jesus was arrested by religious leaders, the apostles, his closest disciples, fled to his side. The apostle Peter was later recognized as one of Jesus' companions by those who helped bring about his arrest. Peter, however, denied knowing Jesus three times. Peter believed that if he remained faithful, God would grant him eternal life, and he knew that denying Jesus was a serious sin. However, his fear of his accusers caused him to err and stray from what he believed to be right. Today, many of us are told to “do what we believe is right, whatever the cost.” However, human weakness often causes people, like Pierre, to hesitate in their attempt to protect themselves. While many people counsel others with the aforementioned motto, few will use it to the extent that Antigone insists, to the extent that the Apostle Peter should have applied it. Antigone is an exceptional example of someone who did what she thought was right. , while she was among fools, many difficulties and discouraging and not very courageous people. Even if we do not defend Antigone's acts of self-sacrifice, or have the strength to do something similar, we must follow the principles behind her actions. Antigone believed, like most people of her time, that the soul of a deceased person could not rest if their body was not buried. Creon, the king, ordered that the body of Polyneices, Antigone's brother, be left to rot without burial, because he had died attacking the city, as a traitor. This poses a huge problem for Antigone; she feels that she must obey the laws of the gods and bury her brother, but the penalty would be earthly death. Antigone's moral values ​​were so important to her that she was willing to die to defend them. She believed that her reward (or punishment) after death would reflect the nobility of her decision and that the reward would last much longer than her earthly life. However, Peter believed the same thing and had complete faith in his beliefs, but he did not act on them. He has become too overwhelmed by the present and his possible suffering. It is human nature to fear death, and this destroyed Peter's desire to adhere to all divine laws. This was not the case with Antigone; no doubt it already occurred to her what she should do.