<P> Richard Jebb suggests that the only reason for Antigone's return to the burial site is that the first time she forgot the Choaí (libations), and "perhaps the rite was considered completed only if the Choaí were poured while the dust still covered the corpse ." </P> <P> Gilbert Norwood explains Antigone's performance of the second burial in terms of her stubbornness . His argument says that had Antigone not been so obsessed with the idea of keeping her brother covered, none of the deaths of the play would have happened . This argument states that if nothing had happened, nothing would have happened, and doesn't take much of a stand in explaining why Antigone returned for the second burial when the first would have fulfilled her religious obligation, regardless of how stubborn she was . This leaves that she acted only in passionate defiance of Creon and respect to her brother's earthly vessel . </P> <P> Tycho von Wilamowitz - Moellendorff justifies the need for the second burial by comparing Sophocles' Antigone to a theoretical version where Antigone is apprehended during the first burial . In this situation, news of the illegal burial and Antigone's arrest would arrive at the same time and there would be no period of time in which Antigone's defiance and victory could be appreciated . </P> <P> J.L. Rose maintains that the solution to the problem of the second burial is solved by close examination of Antigone as a tragic character . Being a tragic character, she is completely obsessed by one idea, and for her this is giving her brother his due respect in death and demonstrating her love for him and for what is right . When she sees her brother's body uncovered, therefore, she is overcome by emotion and acts impulsively to cover him again, with no regards to the necessity of the action or its consequences for her safety . </P>

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