Antigone
A play by Sophocles
Characters:
Antigone- Daughter of Oedipus the king.
Creon- King of Thebes.
Polynices- Antigone’s dead brother. For his honor she fights for.
Ismene- Antigone’s sister.
Haemon- Son of Creon.
Eurydice- wife of Creon.
Antigone is a Greek tragedy telling the tragic story of Antigone from the point of her brothers death to her own death.
Antigone sacrifices her happiness to help her blind father, Oedipus, and sacrifices her life to give burrial to her brother Polynices.
The play shows how much Antigone is devoted to her family and how much she is willing to sacrifice for them.
After her fathers death she devotes her life in order to give her brother the honor he deserves by giving him burial - That is despite the king’s order to not give him burial.
Creon gets very angry at Antigone because she dared disobey him and so he sends his guards to put her in a cave and let her die.
When Haemon hears what his father have done to Antigone, he goes and confronts him. He tells him that if he will let Antigone die, he will loose him forever. Then Haemon runs to Atigone in attempt to save her but he finds her hung, breathless.
When Creon realizes he doesn’t want to loose his son, he goes after him. When they meet Haemon tries to kill his father with his sword but misses and hurts himself. He falls on his own sword and dies.
Eurydice hears about what happened and decides that life is not worth living without her son and so she kills herself.
When Creon goes back to his palace, he finds his wife dead. And so Creon is left alone, stained in blood.
More reviews about the Antigone