The bonds that tie

I have never really cared for the character Antigone. I have already read the play twice for different classes, and each time, Antigone has annoyed me. Although she has passion and strength, I thought she was too rash and assuming, too much of a Byronic hero. Instead of looking for different solutions, she picked the extreme route, setting off a key point in a suckish, death resulting chain of events. I found her too irrational and unreasonable.
However, I've never read Woodruff's introduction before, and now, having read it today, I can say I find Antigone's character to be annoyingly Byronic, but I can also see why. Now while Creon hasn't ever been my favorite either, I could understand where he was coming from with the whole running the country thing; but now I think he went beyond choosing the state over family. I think by refusing Polyneices burial, he was essentially severing his connection with the entirety of the family. Although he viewed the former prince as a traitor, by leaving his body unburied, he disgraces not only him, but also his sisters. It was really unclassy and contradictory of Creon, to basically tell Antigone that he hasn't any respect for her family, but he wants her to marry his son just to keep up good public appearance.
I still don't like Antigone very much, but I don't blame her for what she does. Maybe if something like that happened to me, I'd do the same thing, (if I had that suicidal courage).