Antigone is a young lady that lives in Thebes, an ancient city in Upper Egypt. Her two brothers made a mutual agreement and killed each other on the same day. Her father gouged both of his eyes out and her mother committed suicide. Antigone and her sister, Ismene, were the only two left in the family that haven’t mutilated themselves. She is planning to kill a man who she has fallen in love with but cannot pursue for unknown reasons. Her and her sister discuss the planned murder; Antigone states that she is not afraid to die while committing this murder. Ismene wants Antigone to keep the murder a secret so she at least has a chance of not being caught. But Antigone says that she will hate Ismene if she does not tell anyone and everyone of what Antigone has done. Ismene tries to talk some sense into her, but Antigone won’t have any of it because she has her mind set.
Though Antigone plans on killing a man simply because she cannot be with him, I don’t think that she is crazy. It seems to me that Antigone has found her first “true” love and since she can’t be with him, she doesn’t think life is worth living, for him either. Taking as extreme an action as she is planning to make seems pretty average for this family. The rest of her family preformed mutilation on themselves while Antigone is going to harm someone else. For this she is immature and selfish in that just because she can’t have the man she wants, she wants him dead. Antigone is taking her emotions to the extreme and doing something that is unjust and unfair for this man. If she cannot bear to be away from this man and feels that someone should die for it, she should kill herself. She should not be so greedy as to take someone else’s life. Antigone is very immature, emotional, unreasonable and selfish.