Antigone

When the blind prophet, Tiresias, tells Creon that the Gods are on Antigone’s side, Creon realizes that he probably should not have given such a terrible death to Antigone and a death without a burial to Polynices. That is four of his family, dead, all because of one very wrong decision. Most of them can afford proper burials and some of them can’t.

You know that people die everyday, a lot of people. Haemon reacts to this by having a feud with his father and leaving his home. When it comes down to death, though, everyone should have a proper burial. But as a king, you have to make hard decisions all the time, just as the President does. You can’t just let a body sit and rot, especially if it a family member of yours or it means something to someone else. They were all saddened by a loss so they decided to take their own lives. We can understand now why the deaths of Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice all happened in sequence. Even ex-convicts get proper burials because they still have people that care about them. Would you make the same decision that Antigone did? What about Haemon? How must he have felt when his father told him that he was going to kill his soon-to-be bride? And Eurydice suffered the same as Antigone and Haemon as she had to watch this go on. Imagine another of your loved ones telling you not to bury him or else you will be put to death. It almost sounds disgusting, just letting a body rot without a burial.