Antigone

How Tragic!

Even though Antigone and King Creon both had to suffer throughout the play for their individual, various reasons, I think that Antigone suffered the most.

Antigone has had a twisted fate even before birth. Her family was very abnormal. Besides being married to her cousin, her father was also her brother. Before she was born, her dad married his mom unknowingly. When he found out, they had already bore four children. He gouged his eyes out, and his wife/mother killed herself.

Speaking of family, her uncle King Creon, was distorted. Since he didn’t like her brother Polyneices, he made it a law to not bury him when he had died. When Antigone gave her brother a proper burial, Creon sentenced her to