Реферат: Antigone Essay Research Paper ANTIGONE In the

Antigone Essay, Research Paper

ANTIGONE In the story of Antigone, two very headstrong people’s beliefs are

matched up against each other. Creon, the king, made it law that no traitor to

the Kingdom shall have a proper burial, instead they will be left laying on the

ground to rot and to be eaten by the animals. This was the case of Antigone’s

brother, Polyneices. Antigone’s love for her brother was so great that she went

against the law, eventhough she knew Creon’s punishment for breaking the law

was public stoning, which ultimately resulted in death. Creon, who had an equal

amount of determination, refused to back down from his law for his own

reasons even after Antigone ignored it. He could not submit himself to the will

of a woman. At that time, women were looked at as being in the same class as

slaves. If he did, it would have showed weakness in him and the people would

have overthrown him for letting a woman have that effect on him. So instead

of the public stoning, Creon sentenced Antigone to die in a cave where she

could starve to death. Instead of dying a slow miserable death, she committed

suicide by hanging herself. As it turns out, this set off a string of events for the

king that he could have never saw coming. The first of the tragic events that

would unfold was the death of his son. Haemon was Creon and Eurydice’s son

and was next in line to the throne with Antigone as his wife. Creon’s son was

set to be married to Antigone, but after Creon sentenced her to death, Haemon

turned on his father. He was outraged that Creon had taken away his future

wife, in which he was very much in love with. He was so outraged, that he

would even break the unique and special bond between father and son.

Haemon felt incomplete without Antigone and could not stand being apart from

her. He found away to solve his problem and get revenge on his father at the

same time. He had taken his own life and at the same time killed the future of

the family’s place in the throne. Creon was crushed at what his son did,

especially hearing it from someone else. After hearing of Haemon’s death,

Eurydice was completely devastated and felt some what violated. She felt

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