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Antigone Summary

Many wonderful plays were written during ancient Greece, and Sophocles’ Antigone is certainly not an exception from that. The events in the play would definitely categorize it as being a tragedy without question. In, 'Antigone' by Sophocles, Antigone chooses to follow the will of the Gods, and Creon concerns himself with man's law. The following excerpt epitomizes the tragic conclusion of that struggle and the individual who experiences the most pain out of all the sorrow stricken characters:


CREON Woe for sin of minds perverse, Deadly fraught with mortal curse. Behold us slain and slayers, all akin. Woe for my counsel dire, conceived in sin. Alas, my son, Life scarce begun, Thou wast undone. The fault was mine, mine only, O my s...

Posted by: Raymon Androckitis

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