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6 years ago
What is the role of Eurydice? Is her presence essential to the story? Whatwould be the effect of removing her from the drama?
 
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  • Eurydices role in the play is, to say the least, an extremely limited one. She makes her only appearance very near the end of the play, to hear the messengers account of the deaths of Antigone and Haemon; she then returns without a word to the palace, where she takes her own life, cursing her husband with her dying breath. Whether her presence is essential is debatable. The messengers account could have been just as easily delivered to the chorus, and Creon is already destroyed with grief and guilt before being told of his wifes bitter suicide. Even if not strictly essential, however, her presence in the drama adds another measure of pity and terror, a further twist of the knife in Creons heart, a final blow in the fulfillment of the tragic fate that he has brought upon himself by his willfulness and defiance of the gods.
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