The Deaths Of Tragedy In Sophocles Antigone

In Sophocles Antigone, the reader is forced to ask her/himself a few different questions that would help to answer some of the problems in the story. These questions the reader would ask are who is responsible for what happens in the end of the story of Antigone? The next question is, could any tragedy in the story be avoided if any characters would have acted differently? Lastly do any of the characters share similar characteristics? These questions would help the reader determine who was right and who was wrong in the story. First, in determining who is responsible for the deaths at the end of the story, the reader has to determine who is right and who is wrong. In Sophocles “Antigone” he gives us two main characters, Antigone and her Uncle Creon, the king of Thebes. Antigone is set out on quest to fulfill her brother’s wishes in pursuing his burial after his death. Although she knows that burying her brother will cause her a painful future, she is determined to do what is right. Along with her brothers wishes she feels that burying him is the way the gods had said to do, and Antigone did not want to disobey the gods. She states “Nor did I think your edict had such a force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakeable traditions” …show more content…
Starting with Antigone, if she would have just chose to be more like her sister Ismene, and follow the societies roles for women, there would be no deaths for Antigone, her husband, and Creon’s wife. In lines 74-75 Ismene states “Remember we are women, we’re not born to contend with men”. If Antigone just would have listened to Ismene, there wouldn’t be any conflict between the family. Perhaps if Creon would have listened to the gods orders on burials then there could have been conflict resolved. Therefor if the two could have behaved differently than the outcomes would have been