Antigone and Home Fire

         A prominent conflict from Antigone that was adapted very heavily by Shamsie in Home Fire was the struggle between what's just and what the law states. In Antigone, the protagonist, Antigone, breaks the law by burying her brother against the king's orders, in order to do what's just for her brother. Similarly, in Home Fire, Aneeka tries to take her brother's body back home to Britain, even when the Home Secretary has declared that she cannot. In both of these situations, what stands out the most to me is the conflict between the law and justice; the law is not always just, which means that what is just is not always the law. 

        I found it very interesting how even though the conflict the protagonists face in both Home Fire and Antigone are structurally very, very similar, the stories feel very, very different. I feel like this might just be me, but Home Fire has a lot more emotional investment in each of the characters and is a much more gravitational story; meanwhile, Antigone starts going downhill really fast and I could almost predict what happens in the end of the play. This is probably due to the fact that Antigone is not just a script but a whole play, which I was not able to experience; Home Fire being a novel was very engrossing and captivating, as the reader had the perspectives of each of the characters in the sections of the book.