Antigone

The major characters of this play are Antigone, Creon, and Haemon. The language of the play is in a superior manner, except for when Antigone speaks to Creon. Everyone including Haemon speaks with respect to Creon even though he is his father; Creon expects to be spoken to as a superior. The plays plot is about two boys who die one being honorable and the other being a dishonorable person even though the two died in combat, and their sister stands up for the proper burial of the "dishonorable" and gets punished for standing up for her believes and Creon the thrown holder drives her to hang herself causing her husband to kill himself and as a ripple effect Creons' wife commits suicide for the loss of her son Haemon, after Tiresias tells Creon about his pour judgment. The setting of this play as I would describe it would be in a palace with large stone columns in the time of the Romans where the Gods were looked up to be the leaders of the city. I think the theme of this play is not to take face value for your perception of things that "Sooner or later foul is fair, fair is foul to the man the gods will ruin"---- (729) The tragic hero of Antigone I believe is Creon because of his poor choices with Antigone it caused him pain and agony after he falls from his high and powerful feeling to a low mournful place for his punishings of Antigone. His hanartia is the ripple effect of his son Haemon losing Antigone his wife then in reaction takes his own life then when Creons' wife hears of the horrifying news she then takes her life and Creon is left with pain of the two dead corpses before him as he proclaims responsibility for their deaths by shouting "I murdered you, my son, against my will----you too, my wife..." and again recognizing his mistakes by stating that "whatever I touch goes wrong---once more a crushing fate's come down upon my head!".