Love In Sophocles Antigone

Many believe that tragedy takes on the deceitful disguise of love, working its way into million of hearts before exposing itself. Examples of this date back as early as the beginning of time, but became more vocalized in the BC era through the production of plays. Sophocles, a famous play writer from ancient Greece, shared this idea of love through the heartbreakingly sophisticated play Antigone, the last play in the three Theban plays. Throughout his play love exposes its evil to Antigone, a sister devoted to her deceased brother, Haimone, a fool stuck in love, and poor Creon, a man captivated by the throne.
The play begins with Antigone exclaiming to her sister, Ismene that she will bury her brother Polyneices, even though it goes under the strict order of Creon, the King of Thebes. She refused to see her brother suffer for eternity outside of the underworld. Her …show more content…
In the rise of power, Creon declared that Polyneices, his nephew, be refused a burial because he was considered a fool “who broke his exile to come back with fire and sword against his own native city” (Scene I, 165-166). He refused the gods, Polyneices; therefore, the gods would refuse him happiness. As the play carries on Creon, sends Antigone to the vault, and demolishes his relationship with his son, Haimone, in the process. Creon was overwhelmed with the power he gained when he was given the crown, and realized the wrong he had done a little to late. By the time he attempted to right his wrongs, Antigone was dead, Haimone was prepared to die, and his beloved wife was so disgusted she drove a knife into her own heart. Creon was so in love with the crown that he failed to see how tragedy had taken over other aspects of his life rapidly. Some could say that Creon was perhaps the most pitiful character throughout the play, losing not only his son, wife, niece, but also