Antigone
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"Antigone"
In the play Antigone, the family has a very dynamic break-up. Families are meant to stay together and go through things with one another. However, this play has a different setting. The play ends in a tragedy that forces the family to break-up because of one person. No one was happy with the way things were going.
The reason why the family broke up is because Creon would not agree with anyone. Antigone was upset because Eteocles was buried with military honors and that he had a soldier's funeral. But Polyneices was not even aloud to be buried and no one should mourn for him. He should just lie in a field were birds can feed off of him.
Even though both brothers died miserably, only one was aloud to have a ceremony...