Major conflicts

• Individual vs society -> Antigone fights the establishment to expose an unjust law. Not only is she battling Creon who decrees Polyneices should not be buried, she also battles the social customs of the time that assumed women were the weaker gender and therefore unfit for politics.
• Person vs person -> Antigone battles Creon (the state), Antigone battles Ismene over burying her brother, Creon battles his son and Tiresias.
• Person vs The Supernatural -> Antigone's family has been cursed by the gods. The fate wills them to destruction.
• Person vs self -> Ismene initially decides not to help her sister but claims responsibility afterwards. She is torn between following her conscience or following the law. Creon also must relent in scene 5 although he doesn't want to.