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Themes
    The three major themes are love, loyalty, and irony; the most major theme
being irony.
    Antigone's love for her brother, Polyneices, was so strong, she died for
him. Haemon's love for Antigone was so strong, he died with her death.
Eurydice's love for her son, Haemon, was so strong, she died with his death.
Creon's guilt and love for his wife and son was so strong, he felt he should not
go on living after their death. ". . . I speak for you, for me, and for the spirits of
the dead. . . The dead? Precisely--you'll never marry her alive. . .Well then,
dead--one death beckoning to another. . . " This is part of a conversation
between Creon and Haemon while Haemon is standing up for Antigone. Love is
constantly being shown through the book. Another quote from the book is said
by the Strophe I: ". . . Love, unquelled in battle, Love making nonsense of
wealth, Pillowed all night on the cheek of a girl, You roam seas, pervade the
wilds, And in a Shepherd's hut you lie. Shadowing immotal gods, You dog
ephemeral man--Madness your possession. . . "
    Another theme is loyalty, which is mostly the same as the theme of love.
By loving someone, therefore you are also loyal to them. It follows the same
cronilogical order as the theme of love: Polyneices' death brings out Antigone's
loyalty, which brings upon her death, which then brings out Haemon's loyalty to
Antigone, which brings upon his death, which shows Eurydice's loyalty to her
son, which brings about her de...

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Date Submitted: 06-27-09 3:02am
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