Antigone :: Essays Papers

Antigone When variant anything it is usu every(prenominal)y to the benefit of the reader if the author moderates the ending of the story at the end. So when I started to read Antigone and figured out right outside(a) that she would die I wondered what purpose it served to read the rest of the play. Had I not finished the play, however, I would not have ever known how Antigone was to die. Nor would I have know if Ismene would also die or if Polyneices would ever engender a proper burial. Needless to advance I finished the play. succeeding(a) the story line I was extremely impressed by what I public opinion was courage and family loyalty on the part of Antigone to risk expiration just to bury her deceased brother. I wondered if I, faced with the uniform situation, would need the same. I tend to think that I would be more comparable the timid Ismene who did everything she could think of to dissuade Antigone from what she was destined to do. I micklet be veritable thou gh because I dont believe in or worship the same gods Antigone did.Continuing on I started to glean more of Creons personality. I intentional that he was not the humble and merciful person I thought he was still rather he was a prideful and possibly even a tyrant king. I say this because why else would you leave someone that has already been defeated and is dead, left unburied and then venture expiry to anyone who tries to bury him? To mean this personifies cruelty and yet I can see that maybe he had a hidden agenda in doing this. This act, instead of being used as an unjust punishment, might be seen as a tool of deterrence. I certainly wouldnt want to be killed just to bury someone else.Further on in the play, by Teiresias, I started to realize that Creons ruling would backfire on him in a most fitting way. I dont wish death on anybody but isnt it justice served that Haemon should die because of Creons killing Antigone. No one can say that Creon wasnt warned, both by Haemon a nd Teiresias. However, the deaths didnt stop there because after learning of Haemons death Eurydice kills herself and so Creon is hurt twice over. After a while all this death gets depressing and I started to wonder if anyone would be left unrecorded by the end of the story.