Antigone Character overview
- Created by: Callie Anna
- Created on: 30-04-14 08:34
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- Antigone
- Antigone
- Daughter of Oedipus
- Defies a civil law (non burial of Polynices) in order to uphold the divine law requiring that the dead be put to rest with proper rituals
- Ismene
- Sister of Antigone
- Timidly refuses to join her sister in disobeying the civil law
- Later wants to join her in death
- Creon
- King of Thebes
- Inforced a law to leave Polynices' body unburied
- Refuses to admit the possibility that he may be wrong
- Brings about the events of the Tragedy
- Solider
- Brings news of the attempted burial of Polynices
- Messenger
- Man who tells the deaths of Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice
- Haemon
- Son of Creon
- Promised in marriage to Antigone
- Argues calmly for Antigones release
- meets with angry rejection
- Tiresias
- Blind Prophet
- Auguries show that the Gods are angered by Creon's decision to leave Polynices unburied
- Eurydice
- Queen of Thebes
- Wife of Creon
- Hearing the death of her son, leads her to suicide
- Chorus
- Elders of Thebes
- Listen loyally to Creon
- Rebuke Antigone
- Advise the king to change his mind when Teiresias warns of the Gods' punishments
- Antigone
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