In “Antigone” Eurydice could be eliminated from the story because there wouldn't be any effect on the story. Throughout the entire story Eurydice only speaks once in Lines 1303-1312 and says “My countrymen, all of you—I caught the sound of your words as I was leaving to do my part, to appeal to queen Athena with my prayers. I was just loosing the bolts, opening the doors, when a voice filled with sorrow, family sorrow, struck my ears, and I fell back, terrified, into the women's arms—everything went black. Tell me the news, again, whatever it is … sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.” The main reason Eurydice speaks is so the messenger can repeat the news which doesn’t have a strong effect on the play. To commence, Eurydice
