At the end of the play we see a grief-stricken Creon who’s lost his niece, son, and wife under his rule as king of Thebes. Furthermore, Creon’s wife succumbs to the same fate upon hearing of her son’s demise. Creon finds a dead Antigone who has taken her own life, and his son Haemon who also took his life upon seeing his dead fiancée. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. The play is named after the main protagonist Antigone. The story expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes ends. Creon eventually agrees, but not before it is too late. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the order of events depicted in the plays, Sophocles wrote Antigone first. Meanwhile, Teiresias, a blind and trustworthy prophet to Creon, also pleads for Antigone’s release and the burial of the dead to please and respect the gods. However, Antigone defies the cultural context of Thebes by openly challenging Creon's decree. Unlike her father, however, Antigone possesses a remarkable ability to remember the past. Throughout the play, Sophocles depicts women as being marginalized and subservient to men. Within the first fifty lines, she is planning to defy Creon’s order and bury Polynices. Creon dismisses his son and is untouched by his words. Antigone Antigone is very much her father’s daughter, and she begins her play with the same swift decisiveness with which Oedipus began his. Haemon, her fiancé and Creon’s son, hears of her sentence and tries to persuade his father to rethink Antigone’s fate. She is sentenced to death for her defiance. While in the act, she is caught and taken before the king where she refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. Resultantly, she defies Creon’s law and buries Polyneices. Antigone, the sister of the two dead brothers and Creon’s niece, disagrees with this law of the land and instead favors the law of the gods.

Their uncle Creon assumes the throne and without delay, as king, he declares that Eteocles should receive a hero’s burial while the presumed traitor Polyneices should be left unburied in the open fields. Sophocles play Antigone begins with the death of two brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, who killed each other in a war for the right to the throne of Thebes.

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