The answer: Stasis.
The town of Thebes is in shambles from the mass civil war that went on between Oedipus’s elder son Eteocles and his younger son Polynices followed by other foreign heirs, resulting in the death of all heirs and a new king, Creon, to rise to the throne. Eteocles recieved a proper burial, but Polynices was not so lucky.
Inciting Incident.
Antigone feels her brother Polynices deserves to be burial despite the blatant opposition of such action by King Creon. Regardless of all advice given against it, Antigone buries her brother. This breaks a decree of Creon’s, placing him in a crucial decision-making position.
Complications.
- Creon denies burial of Polynices
- Antigone found burying brother Polynices
- Creon attempts to cover up for Antigone, but she’s not for it
- Creon and Antigone disagree on the importance of her brothers lives, and how she should not make the mistake in meddling in them
- Ismene tries to help Antigone out as well
- Antigone is figured out and arrested against Haemon’s desires
- Antigone reluctant to have Guard write her final words, but accepts
- CLIMAX: Antigone hangs herself, leading to Haemon and Eurydice’s suicides, leaving Creon alone