Antigone and Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices are the two daughters and sons born to
Oedipus and Jocasta. Their two power-greed sons kill each other while controlling the city of
Thebes, located in central Greece. But Creon, the ruler of Thebes also the brother of Jocasta gets Eteocles buried by paying attention to all the necessary rituals but ignores and orders to leave the body of Polyneices unburied and preyed by worms and vultures for committing treason by plotting against the city of Thebes. He even goes to the extent of passing a decree that whosoever buries Polyneices shall bear the punishment of death. Horrified by this,
Antigone visits Ismene outside the palace and seeks help in burying their brother. Ismene rejects her idea by adding that it would be foolish and impossible to bury him by going
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Antigone alone buries his brother by not leaving a single clue.
Hearing this news from a Sentry/Guard who is looking after Polyneices corpse, Creon orders
Sentry to find out who did it, if not, he might kill him. The Sentry somehow traces and brings
Antigone to him and when asked about it, she speaks the truth. Very soon, after summoning and hearing the words of Ismene, he finds Antigone playing the major part in it, so orders the
Sentry to bury her alive. He dishonours gods by scorning the rituals to be played for deadones and completely goes deaf to the words uttered by their people that he is misusing the power and he doesn't even care when his son, Haemon visits and pleads to set Antigone, his fiancée free. But when Tiresias, a blind Prophet warns him that he is going to pay for all his dictatorial deeds, he changes his mind and visits Polyneices to bury him properly, only to know that it is too late. Antigone hangs herself, besides Haemon lying dead with his half-ofhis sword stabbed into his stomach and later his wife, Eurydice hanging herself to death