Antigone is almost like a sequel to Oedipus which means that once again there is quite a lot of tragedy. The difference is that in Oedipus there is tragedy throughout the whole thing and his whole life, with Antigone there is tragedy a little bit at the begging when both brother fight each other and die but then it holds off until the very end to get very tragic. Antigone and Ismene the sisters are struggling already but Antigone decides that she can't live with one of her brothers not being buried correctly while the other gets a high up burial. She quite literally decides she would rather die, than let her brother go out of this world like that. Kreon since becoming king has stopped listening to what others have to say, and stopped caring about anyone but himself and his image which ends up being his downfall. Kreon truly makes a tragedy for himself by ignoring even his own son and a profit who has been around for years. He decides that he must uphold the rule that basically if anyone disobeys or goes against the king for any reason it is punishable by death, even if it is his own niece and his sons soon to be bride. When he sends Antigone away after his son failing to convince him, she hangs herself rather than starve to death in a cave, alone, so even when Kreon realizes his mistake he is too late, and even his son has died by his own sword. Finally just to truly drill down the tragedy, as he carries his dead son into the castle he finds out that his wife killed herself as well. Kreon is left surrounded by death and despair, making this a true tragedy.
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