Antigone

In "Antigone," dramatic irony is evident when Creon tells his son Haemon that rulers must not yield to women, unaware that Antigone, Haemon's fiancée, has defied his orders and buried her brother....

In Sophocles's Antigone, Creon rules that Polynices's body will be left to rot on the battlefield. He warns the people of Thebes that anyone who attempts to bury the treacherous prince will be stoned...