Answer:
<h2>SOPHOCLES</h2><h2>Translation by F. Storr, BA</h2><h2>Formerly Scholar of Trinity College,</h2><h2>Cambridge</h2><h2>From the Loeb Library Edition</h2><h2>Originally published</h2><h2>by</h2><h2>Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA</h2><h2>and</h2><h2>William</h2><h2>Heinemann Ltd, London</h2><h2>First published in 1912</h2><h2>Argument</h2>
Explanation:
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of
Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices,
slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's
watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting
that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of
any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a
rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads
in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer
Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky
prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had
hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning
to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of
her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.
