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Antigone

Antigone

In the tradition of all great Greek tragedies, Sophocles created a masterpiece when he wrote the play Antigone.  The play contains a similar plot to a tragedy such as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet because the play focuses on what lengths people go to when they cannot be with the ones they love.  The play begins on a down note because the main character, Antigone, and her sister Ismene are the daughters of the exiled Oedipus whose luck was ill fated after he married his mother and killed his father. 
Antigone is upset because her brother Polyneices was killed and his body was left to rot.  Her sister does not support Antigone's decision to have a proper burial for their brother and she is afraid of what Creon, who is the ruler of Thebes, wrath will be.  Antigone is in engaged to Haemon, the son of Creon.  Antigone follows through with her plan to her brother and this angers Creon.  Creon decision is to exile Antigone to a cave for life and spare Ismene.  Haemon begs his father to spare Antigone but his pleading does not work and Haemon vows to never see his

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