Journal #10- Antigone

List of Events

• Antigone is thinking about her family and how she is going to rise up against Creon. She knows she is going to die.
• Antigone's sister Ismene is chatting with a young man, Haemon (the King's son)
• Antigone and Haemon are engaged. There was ball one night he danced with Ismene but decided to go and asked Antigone to marry him. She was not surprised and accepted. No one saw this coming.
• Haemon is expecting to marry Antigone but he won't, he will instead die sooner than he might have otherwise have done.
• Creon is sitting, lost in thought
• Before Oedipus was King and Creon was no more than the King's brother in law.
• Oedipus died and both of his sons did as well. Creon had to take over the kingdom 
• Creon does his job even though there are problems
• Eurydice is Creon's wife. She's knitting and does so for the whole play until she has to go to her room and die
• She is no help for her husband

 Anouilh structures his play so that we know the events ahead of time. One reason he could have done this would be so we already know what will happen and not focus so much on the suspense and focus more on the characters and their interactions with each other. It seems that he doesn't side with Antigone or Creon, he kind of just gives the reader both sides. He is simply stated the facts and I think that will help the reader formulate their own opinion. Also from what we learned what a tradegy is supposed to be we're not actually supposed to side with one side, but instead be able to relate to both sides. So I think this was a good set up for the play.