Final answer:
Creon, the character in Sophocles' play 'Antigone,' believes that Antigone deserves to be exiled to a tomb, effectively isolating her from the living world and any chance of a future or husband in the afterlife.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Antigone by Sophocles, Creon believes that Antigone deserves exile after her defiance. Antigone's act of burying her brother Polyneices went against the edict of Creon, and as a consequence, she faces being buried alive in a tomb—a fate akin to exile from the living world. Creon's harsh judgment reflects his unwavering adherence to law and order over individual moral beliefs and the natural laws of the gods, evident in his utterance: "She shall be taken to some desert place by man untrod, and in a rock-hewn cave, with food no more than to avoid the taint that homicide might bring on all the State, buried alive." Notably, this punishment is Creon's alternative to Antigone finding a husband in the afterlife as he ultimately strips her of all mortal connections and prospects.