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Antigone wants justice for her dead brother, Polyneices. Her sister Ismene wants security, from any possible humiliating repeats of the miserable fates of her parents, King Oedipus and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Her cousin and fiance, Haemon, wants love and marriage with Antigone. Her uncle and sovereign, Theban King Creon, wants obedience. Her aunt, Queen Eurydice, wants grandchildren and the safe carrying on of the royal bloodline through her only surviving child, Haemon. And her city's blind prophet, Teiresias, wants respect for the laws and the will of the gods.

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