1. Antigone - Sophocles
Denying someone the ability to do something makes him or her rebel. ... He decides to let Antigone live because he felt fear after Tiresias has prophesied doom for his family and city (Weigel 296). When Haemon saw Antigone had hanged herself with a rope she made out of her dress he cried out and then tried to stab his father. ... Once Creon found out that his wife had killed herself because she heard of her son demise, he realized he had nothing or nobody to live for (Weigel 296). ... It was his fate because he did not believe that something could happen to him (Magill 44-6). ...
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