 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.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.