With that scenery, the play opens with Oedipus' two little girls, Antigone and Ismene, talking about the passings of their siblings. Antigone is angered because Creon has announced that Polyneices is not to get an interment or burial service rituals while Eteocles is given a respectable burial service.
Creon has likewise proclaimed that any individual who meddles with this law will be openly battered to the point of death for supporting a backstabber. Antigone asserts that Creon's law is out of line since the order of the divine beings that each human be given an appropriate memorial service out of regard to the divine beings and the dead.
She advises Ismene that she intends to cover their sibling's body and give him his burial service rituals, regardless of whether she is rebuffed. She requests that Ismene help her. However, Ismene declines, dreading the discipline that Creon has guaranteed.
She reminds Antigone that their family has experienced sufficient misfortune, and her activities will escalate the family distresses. Antigone differs and lets Ismene know that she could not care less assuming she is rebuffed for her activities—that she would invite the expense of death in return for supporting her convictions.
Watches get Antigone when she returns to the grave she has arranged for her sibling, and they carry her before Creon to account for herself. She uninhibitedly concedes what she has done, and she says that she invites discipline. She shields her activities by asserting that she has regarded the divine beings, whose laws are a higher priority than the laws of humans.
Creon is incensed at her rebellion, and he says he will, in any case, condemn her absurdly although she is locked into his child, Haemon.
Ismene misleads Creon, letting him know that she was an associate in the expectation of saving her sister. Creon says he will have them both killed, yet Antigone invalidates Ismene's story. Haemon visits his dad, Creon, and lets him know that although he adores him, he contradicts his discipline of Antigone for covering her sibling—as do a large portion of the residents of Thebes.
They currently view Antigone as a legend and saint. Creon is enraged that Haemon does not uphold him, and their contention becomes warmed. Haemon repudiates his dad and cautions him that Antigone's demise will bring about another passing. Antigone is brought before Creon and the Chorus.
Although she stays insubordinate, she mourns the way that she will not ever marry and that she will pass on alone, forsaken, and with practically no assistance. Creon has her driven away to be buried alive in a cavern.
The visually impaired prophet Teiresias shows up and cautions Creon that he found in a prescience including birds that the divine beings are irate with him for leaving Polyneices' body unburied. He encourages Creon to fix the circumstance while he has time and free Antigone.
Creon is incensed with Teiresias' recommendation, blaming him for accepting hush money to convey this notice. In reprisal, Teiresias lets him know now it is past the point of no return, at any rate—and that Creon will eventually be rebuffed by having his child detracted from him. Creon understands that Teiresias is significant and acts rapidly as he prompts.
A courier shows up at the castle and reports that Haemon has kicked the bucket; having committed suicide later, he observed Antigone swinging from a noose in her burial place. Creon had shown up at the burial chamber with perfect timing to observe his child's self-destruction, and he is forlorn.
Creon's significant other, Eurydice, rises out of the royal residence to hear the courier's story and, later, gets back to the castle without saying a word. Creon shows up back at the castle, conveying Haemon's carcass. He is upset at how he has driven his child to self-destruction.
The courier rises out of the royal residence and tells Creon that Eurydice has been found dead likewise from self-destruction. Creon is hopeless, at a final agreement that he has welcomed this misfortune on himself. The Chorus sings a last tribute about the significance of complying with the divine beings and remaining humble to acquire intelligence.