Death_Unconquerable

Death Unconquerable In Antigone by Sophocles, Ode III discusses how love conquers all; love is unconquerable. However the entire play refutes this idea. Three main characters kill themselves due to the circumstances in Sophocles’ play, maybe because they loved one another, but love does not succeed in these situations, death overcomes all of them. Perhaps Ode III should be about death unconquerable. Ode III speaks directly to love. “Surely you swerve upon ruin/ The just man’s heart, / As here you have made bright anger/ Strike between father and son - ” (218). Despite Creon’s knowledge of his son, Haimon’s love for Antigone, he sentences her to death. Haimon even came to his father in hopes to change his mind. He uses arguments he knows might change his father’s mind and discards all the arguments he knows his father will not accept. However, Creon refutes even all the acceptable arguments. Despite the fact that, Creon loves his son, he does not give Haimon the opportunity to show his father that there could be better ways to do what he has threatened to do. At the end of Ode III, the Chorus refers to Aphrodite as merciless, after Haimon and Creon’s argument, love, death, creon, antigone, son, haimon, father, however, family, play, ode, live, ismene, iii, end, without, stand, even, despite, brother, because, arguments, about, ultimately, stands, speaks, sophocles’, situations, sisters, rock, refutes, problem, overcomes, overcome, opportunity, one, never, mind, merciless, made, loves, loved, let, lead, knows, himself, father’s, fact, eventually