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• Antigone rebels.
• She is, however, caught in the act of rebellion
and is sentenced to die by being walled up in a
cave.
• Her fiance Haemon, son of Creon, rebels
against his father’s edict, and attempts to free
her.
• But it is too late. He finds her dead having
hung herself.
• Haemon curses his father, Creon, and stabs
himself to death.
• Meanwhile Tiersias, the blind prophet of
Thebes, warns Creon that the gods were very
angry with Creon for disturbing the cosmic
order by his miscalculations and
misjudgments.
• What wrong had Creon done?