AntigoneIn the story of Antigone, the beliefs of two very stubborn people oppose each other. Creon, the king, has legislated that no traitor to the kingdom shall have a proper burial, but will be left lying on the ground to rot and be eaten by animals. This was the case of Antigone's brother, Polyneices. Antigone's love for her brother was so great that she broke the law, even though she knew that Creon's punishment for breaking the law was public stoning, which ultimately resulted in death. Creon, who had just as much determination, refused to go back on his law for his own reasons, even after Antigone ignored it. He could not submit to the will of a woman. At that time, women were considered to be in the same class as slaves. If he had done so, it would have shown his weakness and the people would have overthrown him for allowing a woman to have this effect on him. So instead of public stoning, Creon sentenced Antigone to die in a cave where she could starve. Instead of dying slowly and miserably, she committed suicide by hanging herself. As it turns out, this set off a series of events for the king that he could never have seen coming. The first of the tragic events to occur was the death of his son. Haemon was the son of Creon and Eurydice and was next in line to the throne with Antigone as his wife. Creon's son was to marry Antigone, but after Creon sentenced her to death, Haemon turned against his father. He was outraged that Creon had taken away his future wife, with whom he was very much in love. He was so outraged that he even went so far as to break the unique and special bond between father and son. Haemon felt incomplete without Antigone and could not bear to be separated from her. He found a way to solve his problem and get revenge on his father at the same time. He had killed himself and at the same time killed the future of the family's place on the throne. Creon was crushed by what his son did, especially by someone else. After learning of Haemon's death, Eurydice was completely devastated and felt somewhat violated. She believed that Creon was responsible not only for the death of Haemon, but also for Megareus who had been killed a few years before..