SUICIDE

Suicide is the stupidest way to end one’s life, and also is the most irresponsible way to escape from reality. Most people think that suicide could cure the problem that they are facing, but this thought actually contradicts with the real fact. According to most people who have experienced with suicide in their family, they said, “Suicide actually creates more problems”. Indeed, that is true; suicide also creates trouble for the police too. However, seems like the characters in the play Antigone do not realized that. In the play, three out of five main characters have committed suicide. They all have different reasons to kill themselves, but the cause is the same – Creon’s stubbornness. Also, they died with diverse attitude too: Antigone die with pride, because she never thinks that she’s done something wrong. Antigone left a sad saying before she died, she said:” You will remember what things I suffer, and at what men’s hands, because I would not transgress the laws of heaven” (Antigone Scene 4. 78-80). Haemon died with grief, because of his beloved wife is sentenced to death by his father. Hasmon even threatened his father with the consequence if Creon insists on killing Antigone, he said: “Antigone’s death will cause another” (Antigone Scene 3. 119). Eurydise died with sorrow, because of his son’s suicide. Through those three suicide incidents, they created more problems for King Creon.