When Creon decrees that Polyneices may not be buried under penalty of death, defiant Antigone secretly gives him a proper funeral and is seized, confessing her act before being sentenced to be sealed alive in a tomb. Her sister Ismene refuses to share the punishment, while Antigone’s betrothed Haemon pleads with Creon, warning that the people sympathize with the condemned and urging mercy. The blind prophet Teiresias then arrives, proclaiming divine wrath will fall on Creon unless he reverses his orders. Too late, Creon relents, ordering Antigone’s burial, but she has already taken her own life; upon discovering her death Haemon kills himself, and a grief‑stricken Eurydides, Creon’s wife, also commits suicide. The tragedy leaves Creon to confront the ruin wrought by his stubbornness and hubris.