... glory'. Antigone's heroic qualities of excessive pride, only dieing with glory and honor helps create the dramatic force. Conversely, Antigone's struggle against Creon shows the struggle between democracy and autocracy. Creon's attempts to establish autocracy to maintain order and stability, but with Antigone it has turned out to be a tyranny. His attempt to bring order and stability to Thebes by removing opposition ironically backfired him, because his unjust law denying the proper burial of Polynices led to the death of Antigone which in turn led to the death of his only son Haemon and his wife Eurydice, and ultimately resulting in chaos. The play also has love as one of its central themes, Antigone's struggle against Creon's unjust decree and the fact that Iseme was willing to take the blame for Antigone outlines the love within the family for nobody 'has the right to keep me from my own'. Moreover, ...

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