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What does Antigone give up in her choices in 'Antigone'?

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Marriage and family life are what Antigone gives up in her choices in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is engaged to Prince Haemon, her first cousin and heir apparent to the Theban throne. But the engagement is broken when she chooses to break a recent edict issued by King Creon, Haemon's father and Antigone's uncle. Her life and all chance for a happy marriage and children end when she chooses to hang herself rather than experience a slow death in a remote, walled-up cave.

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