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How tragic

Antigone

11/16/2015

 
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A tragedy born from tragedy. Antigone tries to save the honor of her brother, who has been condemned by their uncle to an unholy burial. He was to be left for the dogs to feast upon. Antigone loved her brother and could not stand to see him defiled in his death. She buried her brother out of love and so was condemned to death. She joined her brothers and parents in death. Taking her own life just as her mother before her. 

By dishonoring his nephew in death and killing Antigone King Creon lost all that he had left. He killed his son by killing the woman that his son loved. Not being able to bare the thought of life without her, his son takes his own life. Creon's wife blames him for the deaths of both of their sons and so follows her children to the grave leaving Creon to suffer alone on earth.  

The real tragedy here could be seen not in the death that surrounds this story, but that much, if not all, of it was preventable. Creon chose not to learn from Oedipus's heard headed mistakes and so lost everything by believing that he was all powerful and knew what was best in every situation.  In doing so he killed his family, the only thing that he had left. His people were too afraid of him to tell him that they thought that what he was doing was wrong and everyone in Thebes suffered for it. 


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