Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government or under the rule of someone in power.

Antigone chooses to disobey Creon’s law. Creon understood that Polynices was the enemy and was leading a foreign army. he ordered that he not be properly buried and be left in the field of the battle. as she hears the news, Antigone was in disbelief and infuriated by the sudden decision of Creon. she classifies this as an act of corruption.