... tone of pathos within the passage. Not only does Antigone commit suicide, but Haemon, "doomed, [and] desperate with himself", also takes his life by, "by leaning his full weight on the blade, / [and burying] it in his body halfway to the hilt" (lines1362-1364). Haemon's act of suicide depicts a gruesome image of him lunging the sword deeply into his body. The grotesque ... values, thus conveying the omnipresent tone of pathos within this passage. The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil laws. Th...

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