... , card-playing guards . They are common policemen, bothered by the worries of the day-to-day, eternally innocent, indifferent, and prepared to arrest anyone under any leader. The Chorus then recounts the events leading up to Antigone's tragedy. During their recitation, ... his strength. 3.1 Summary Breathless, Antigone tells Haemon that she would have protected their son against everything in the world, and that he would have feared nothing. Though his mother would have not been imposing, she would have been stronger than those ... he is fond of her. Antigone moves wordlessly to the arch...

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... keen reader of the Greek Tragedy may argue that there are various other female characters that have acquired considerable limelight. Aeschylus' Clytemnestra , Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Hecabe and Andromache may be quoted as pertinent examples to substantiate this objection. A close study of all these characters would reveal that none of them happens to ... does not intend to condemn her: "How do you account for such an action? Euripides makes it possible not so much by enlisting sympathy for her crime as by forcing the audience to contemplate the circumstances in which it came ...

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