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Unintended consequences are situations where an action results in an outcome that is not what is intended. The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they are almost always logical or likely results of the action. These consequences could be positive or negative, but it is often said that almost all human actions have at least one unintended consequence. In other words, each cause has more than one effect, including unforeseen effects. A real-world example of this is the Treaty of Versailles, which was the peace treaty that ended World War I. Several countries were involved in treaty negotiations, but some countries were excluded and did not have any demands met. So what resulted is an unhappy compromise, sparking a chain of events that eventually let to World War II. So as a result, war was an unintended consequence of the the Treaty of Versailles. Just like in history, there are unintended consequences in Sophocles' tragic play, "Antigone." Tragedy creates a......

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