Suicide in play Antigone

Basically half of the three of the main characters commited suicide in just two pages. Antigone is found dead in her stone tomb. Then Haemon dies because Antigone, his true love, died. Once Haemon's mother found out that her only son has died, and then she goes and commits suicide herself. I think all of these characters died because of Creon's stubborness.

Antigone is the first to die out of the three characters. I think Creon shouldn't have been so stubborn and maybe she would not have died. When I read how Antigone died it surprised me. The way Sophocles wrote how she died made me feel so sad. I like Sophocles' way of describing how people die compared to Shakespeare's way of describing how people die. It was very unexpected to me for Antigone to hang herself.

As soon as Haemon found out how Antigone died he killed himself. The way the messenger describes how Haemon died was sad. It was sad how Haemon cryed over Antigone's body. Then it was even more sad when he stabbed himself in the side. I almost started crying when the messenger described how he fell on Antigone's body and his blood stained her cheeks. Also when the messenger said, "And how he lies dead with the dead, and she is his/ At last, his bride in the house of the dead" (Antigone Exodus 75-76). I like these last two lines because even though Antigone and Haemon are dead, they will both meet in the after-life and marry eachother there.

When the messenger is done describing how Eurydice's son dies she goes and kills herself. When the Messenger tells Creon that her wife is dead I was surprised. I thought that the queen would mourn over her son and Creon would die, but it was the opposite. Once Eurydice left I thought that she was going to her home to cry. Then the Messenger comes again and has to tell Creon the bad news. I like how Sophocle's describes how Eurydice dies. How she died was pretty dramatic. It was especially dramatic when the Messenger says, "She stood before the altar, and her heart/ welcomed the knife her own hand guided" (Antigone Exodus 112-113). I really like the way Sophocle's describes people dying compared to Shakespeare's way.

I think it is Creon's fault for everyone's death. Since Creon was so stubborn and didn't bury Polynices, Antigone buried and got caught while in the act of burying him. She was sent to a stone tomb and because of her action she commited suicide. Haemon pleaded to his father to let her go. Creon was so stubborn towards his son, and said he will not let her go because of her "bad actions". Since Antigone was not set free and she commited suicide Haemon decided to commit suicide as well. Eurydice commited suicide because her son died. Creon's stubborness caused Antigone to die, which caused Haemon to die, which caused Eurydice to die.