... as it is her death that sets of a chain reaction to the former. Antigone has two brothers: - Eteocles and Polynices', both of them fighting for opposite sides in the Theban war. Whereas Eteocles is fighting for the protection of Thebes, Polynices' is fighting to conquer it. At the end of the war and the beginning of the story it is shown that Thebes has won but both the brothers have perished. The story moves on to state that Polynices' has been condemned a traitor by Creon(and the city's edicts) whereas Eteocles is hailed as a Hero and a martyr. The refusal of burial of one brother and his condemnation to a worse afterlife forces Antigone to sacrifice herself for his sake. . Both the protagonist, Antigone and the antagonist, Creon are driven towards their destruction due to their own flaws in judgements and their seeming infallibility in their ...

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