... the innocent young couple to commit suicide without experiencing their strong dream to marry, thus conveying the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil law. One could observe the incongruity in Haemon's family values between the selected passage and an earlier excerpt, thus suggesting an ironic tone. Before Antigone commits suicide, Haemon agrees with his father ... 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 relat...

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