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Antigone is the name of the play and the main character. She and her sister Ismene are mourning the deaths of their brothers Eteocles and Polynices who killed each other in battle for the control of Thebes. Creon had made a decree that if any one dared to bury him, he would be punished by death, and Antigone was not going to allow this to happen to her brother because she followed the laws of the gods, whereas Ismene was more afraid of the laws that man had declared. Creon calls Polynices a traitor to Thebes, because he had married outside the Thebes gates. Antigone decides to go to the battle field and spreads dirt over the body of Polynices, performing burial rights, she deemed not rendering Polynices a proper burial disrespectful to the gods.
Creon finds out that Polyneices’s body has been buried and he becomes furious. Antigone is brought in for questioning. She tells Creon that she has buried her brother’s body. She argues with Creon about the morality of her actions.......

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