Antigone The play Antigone was a play based on a Greek myth. The main characters are Antigone and Creon. In this essay I will tell you a short account of the play and the ways in which each character could be the tragic character. In the beginning of the play there has been a war between the Argive and Thebes armies. Antigone’s two brothers, Eteocle’s and Polynecies, killed each other. Eteocles was buried, but Polyneices was top lay in a field and be eaten by the animals. Antigone decides to bury him, but her sister, Ismene, will not because she doesn’t want to die for it. Creon punishes Antigone for it and is actually punished himself. He will not listen to the warnings he is given.