Antigone Summary And Analysis
Antigone, written by Sophocles, is the story of Antigone and her struggle between obeying man's laws versus obeying the god's laws. Antigone hears word that her brother Eteocles will be given a proper burial, while her other brother Polyneices will be left to rot. Antigone, furious with Creon and his declaration, decides she will bury her brother and obey god’s laws. She asks her sister Ismene to do what is right and help bury their brother, regardless of the consequences. Ismene, scared of what will happen if they are caught, chooses to follow man’s laws and rejects the invitation. When the messenger delivers the news to Creon that Eteocles has been mysteriously buried, he grows full of rage. It is not until the body is uncovered once again
that they catch poor Antigone mourning for her brother left to rot once again. Antigone is taken straight away to Creon in the palace, where she fesses up to burying Eteocles. Moments after the angry Creon arrests Antigone, Ismene enters. She too fesses up to the crime at hand, begging forgiveness from her sister. Next comes Haemon, son of Creon and fiancee of Antigone, he tries to convince his father that what Antigone did was not bad at all, but rather the opposite. Creon is stuck in his ways, and refuses to listen or obey anything his distraught son is telling him. To cause the least anger within the people of Thebes, he promises to not cause any bloodshed. Instead, he locks Antigone in a closed cave with no food or water where she is bound to die. In no time at all, Creon hears news that Antigone has hanged herself. Only when they arrive the boulder is moved, and a distraught Haemon has his arms around his already dead fiancee. Haemon unsuccessfully attempts to kill his father, but instead plunges the knife into himself. When Eurydice, Creon’s wife, is told of Haemon’s death, she too kills herself. This leaves only Creon to realize all the harm he has caused.
that they catch poor Antigone mourning for her brother left to rot once again. Antigone is taken straight away to Creon in the palace, where she fesses up to burying Eteocles. Moments after the angry Creon arrests Antigone, Ismene enters. She too fesses up to the crime at hand, begging forgiveness from her sister. Next comes Haemon, son of Creon and fiancee of Antigone, he tries to convince his father that what Antigone did was not bad at all, but rather the opposite. Creon is stuck in his ways, and refuses to listen or obey anything his distraught son is telling him. To cause the least anger within the people of Thebes, he promises to not cause any bloodshed. Instead, he locks Antigone in a closed cave with no food or water where she is bound to die. In no time at all, Creon hears news that Antigone has hanged herself. Only when they arrive the boulder is moved, and a distraught Haemon has his arms around his already dead fiancee. Haemon unsuccessfully attempts to kill his father, but instead plunges the knife into himself. When Eurydice, Creon’s wife, is told of Haemon’s death, she too kills herself. This leaves only Creon to realize all the harm he has caused.