Juliet vs Antigone

The tragic heroines Antigone and Juliet share characteristics that delineate their personal dispositions and the qualities that all tragic heroines share as well. In the play Romeo and Juliet, a young girl named Juliet defies the will and regulations of her parents when she falls in love with a young boy names Romeo. Their love is forbidden because they come from rivaling families. Many unfortunate events occur including the death families and friends; due to the forbidden love, Romeo and Juliet result to suicide to freely love each other without the burden of a family name. In the play Antigone, a young girl, Antigone, feels obligated to bury her brother Polyneices knowing lucidly the penalties that will occur; her rash decision to entomb her brother comes from moral respect and the laws of the gods. When Antigone learns that both of her brothers are dead, she soon discovers of the injustice choices that King Creon, her uncle who has inherited the throne of Thebes, has decided by banning the burial of Polyneices. Antigone defies the law, buries her brother, and, as a result, is caught. When Creon locks her away, she kills herself. Both Juliet and Antigone share vital traits that identify themselves as unique tragic heroines. The traits that Juliet and Antigone display throughout Romeo and Juliet and Antigone include being honorable, emotional, and secretive.
One trait of a tragic heroine both Antigone and Juliet share is honorability. Creon, the ruler of Thebes, declares that a proper burial for Polyneices is forbidden because Polyneices was seen as a traitor. On the contrary, Antigone follows her heart and believes in the laws of the gods which required a proper burial for Polyneices despite his appearance of a traitor. As a result, she buries her brother and gives him a proper burial. With Antigone’s actions of burying her brother, it can be seen that she is honorable since Antigone is willing to defy her uncle in order to do what is morally correct for her