When we consider what the central conflict of the play is it
becomes clear that the protagonist and antagonist of the play are Antigone and Creon. As the play
begins, we are presented with a grief-stricken Antigone because she has just found out that
Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has decreed that anyone who died rebelling against his rule must not
be buried or mourned. Antigone is caught between following the gods and their rules and the rules
of Creon - the ruler of Thebes since the death of her father. To break this rule would be
punishable by death:
Whoever
disobeys in teh least
will die, his doom is sealed:
stoning to death inside the city
walls!
Thus it is clear that Antigone
is the protagonist, trying to struggle to be faithful to her brother and the gods, whilst the
character opposing her is Creon.
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