Antigone | Scenes VII-VIII Summary

Scene VII
A messenger enters and reports that Haemon has taken his own life. Eurydice, Creon's wife, comes from the palace to receive this information. She learns how Creon and his men first gave Polyneices an honorable burial, and how, when they came to Antigone's crypt, they found that she had hanged herself. Haemon, in grief, tried to stab his father and, failing this, impaled himself. Eurydice bears this news in silence, returning to the palace.

Scene VIII
Creon returns to the palace bearing the body of his son. He is grief-stricken over the results...


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