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Creon,unrelenting,condemns her to beimmured in a rock-hewn chamber.Hisson Haemon,to whom Antigone isbetrothed,pleads in vain for her life andthreatens to die with her.Warned by theseer Teiresias Creon repents him andhurries to release Antigone from herrocky prison.But he is too late:he findslying side by side Antigone who hadhanged herself and Haemon who alsohas perished by his own hand.Returning to the palace he sees withinthe dead body of his queen who on  \nlearning of her son's death has stabbedherself to the heart.  \nDRAMATIS PERSONAE  \nANTIGONE and ISMENE—daughters of Oedipusand sisters of Polyneices and Eteocles.  \nCREON,King of Thebes.  \nHAEMON,Son of Creon,betrothed to Antigone.  \nEURYDICE,wife of Creon.TEIRESIAS,the prophetCHORUS,of Theban elders.  \nA WATCHMAN  \nA MESSENGER  \nA SECOND MESSENGER  \nbofn  \n# Antigone\n\nANTIGONE and ISMENE before the Palacegates.  \nANTIGONE  \nIsmene,sister of my blood and heart,  \nSee'st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfillThe weirdof Oedipus,a world of woes!For what of pain,affliction,outrage,shame,Is lacking in our fortunes,thine and mine?And now this proclamation of today  \nMade by our Captain-General to the State,What can its purport be?Didst hear and heed,Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?  \nISMENE  \nTo me,Antigone,no word of friends  \nHas come,or glad or grievous,since we twainWere reft of our two brethren in one dayBy double fratricide;and since i'the nightOur Argive leaguers fled,no later newsHas reached me,to inspirit or deject.  \nANTIGONE  \nI know 'twas so,and therefore summoned theeBeyond the gates to breathe it in thine ear.  \nISMENE  \nWhat is it?Some dark secret stirs thy breast.  \nn  \nU  rIismtohelpherbry.hum   \nANTIGONE  \nWhat but the thought of our two brothers dead,The one by Creon graced with funeral rites,The other disappointed?EteoclesHe hath consigned to earth (as fame reports)With obsequies that use and wont ordain,So gracing him among the dead below.But Polyneices,a dishonored corse,at dudd (So by report the royal edict runs)  \nNo man may bury him or make lament一Must leave him tombless and unwept,a feastFor kites to scent afar and swoop upon.Such is the edict(if report speak true)Of Creon,our most noble Creon,aimedAt thee and me,aye me too;and anonHe will be here to promulgate for suchAs have not heard,his mandate;'tis in soothNo passing humor,for the edict says  \nWhoe'er transgresses shall be stoned to death.So stands it with us;now 'tis thine to showIf thou art worthy of thy blood or base.  \n# ISMENE\n\nBut how,my rash,fond sister,in such caseCan I do anything to make or mar?  \nANTIGONE  \nSay,wilt thou aid me and abet?Decide.  \nISMENE  \nIn what bold venture?What is in thy thought?  \nANTIGONE  \nLend me a hand to bear the corpse away.  \nISMENE  \nWhat,bury him despite the interdict?  \nANTIGONE  \nMy brother,and,though thou deny him,thineNo man shall say that I betrayed a brother.  \nISMENE  \nWilt thou persist,though Creon has forbid?  \nANTIGONE  \nWhat right has he to keep me from my own?  \n,o02803  \nISMENE  \nBethink thee,sister,of our father's fate,  \nAbhorred,dishonored,self-convinced of sin,Blinded,himself his executioner.  \nThink of his mother-wife (ill sorted names)Done by a noose herself had twined to deathAnd last,our hapless brethren in one day,Both in a mutual destiny involved,  \nSelf-slaughtered,both the slayer and the slain.Bethink thee,sister,we are left alone;Shall we not perish wretchedest of al","cbCaie5H3hZmddTS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie5H3hZmddTS","pdf",2273328,76,"English","# Argument\n# Dramatis Personae\n# Antigone and Ismene before the Palace gates\n## Antigone\n## Ismene","[{\"question\":\"Why does Antigone bury Polyneices despite Creon’s decree?\",\"answer\":\"Antigone believes she is bound by eternal laws of right and wrong, even if a human edict forbids the burial.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Creon respond once Antigone is caught?\",\"answer\":\"Creon condemns Antigone to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber, rejecting appeals to spare her.\"},{\"question\":\"What changes Creon’s decision before the tragedy is completed?\",\"answer\":\"Teiresias warns Creon, leading him to repent and hurry to release Antigone, but he arrives too late.\"}]","Antigone - Antigoneby Sophocles | PDF",1790586832,117]