Antigone Commentary
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SummarySophocles wrote three plays about Thebes and while the tragedy of Antigone is chronologically the third and last of these, it was ironically written first out of them. It opens up, giving little background, with the two sisters Antigone and Ismene discussing their two now deceased brothers in secret. Through their conversation we find that the brothers have killed each other and one is being refused the right of a proper burial. Antigone argues with Ismene that their brother who was deemed traitorous still deserves the last rights that everyone is entitled to. These opening lines describe what is the major controversy of the play and also open up the first moral question to the audience.
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