In Sophocles’s Greek tragedy, Antigone, Sophocles tells the story of Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Iocasta. Eteocles and Polyneices fight over who will becoming the new King of Thebes.When Antigone return to Thebes, she learns that Creon has only given her brother Eteocles a proper burial. Creon declares that no one may bury Polyneices. Antigone tries to convince her sister Ismene to join her in burying their brother correctly. When Creon catches Antigone, he sends her to jail despite the protests from his son, Haemon. The blind prophet, Tiresias, and Antigone’s fiance, Haemon, plead to Creon to release Antigone. Tiresias attempts to convince Creon that the gods will be curse him for his lack of care for Polyneices’s proper burial and
