Summary Of Antigone
The play begins with the two sisters, Antigone and Ismene, contemplating on their tragic past where their brothers had killed each other and their uncle had taken place as ruler of Thebes. This shocked me and made me aware that the book I was beginning to read was not one that lacked action, although it was a bit tricky to translate. When the brothers died each other's hand in an attempt to become ruler, one was given a proper burial, Etocles, and the other was to be left for predators to eat and civilians to look at, Polynices. Creon, the ruler, had forbidden anybody from burying Polynices, but Antigone is portrayed as a stubborn girl and she says it would be immoral to leave their dead brother for the birds. Antigone had asked Ismene for