To suggest that in Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone gets what she wants and Creon gets what he deserves is clearly a contentious statement. On a simplistic level this may seem to be the case: Antigone gets the burial of her brother which she desires from the outset, whilst Creon's life ends in tragedy because of his thoughtless actions. However, this argument is undoubtedly based on plain facts alone, and this analysis can conceivably be abolished because …
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…on the other hand, does deserve some punishment for his actions, but the three-fold tragedy that strikes him seems unjustified, and perhaps his death may have been more fitting than the living death he is left with. However, this is the end that Sophocles intended for his tragic figure, and any other would not have provoked his audience in to asking these controversial issues he hoped they would, the questions we are still asking today.