Antigone Quote Significane-10/23

"His panic sent us flying to the cave, and in the farthest corner we could see her hanging with a noose of linen around her neck, and leaning on her, hugging his cold lover lost to Hades, Haemon, bridegroom, broken, cursed the father who had robbed him, pouring out his tears of sorrow...Lesson to the world that inhuane designs wreak a havoc immeasurably inhumane." -Messenger, pg. 246

I'm not ashamed to say I'm a hopeless romantic. Even though this whole quote may look like one person klling themselves after another, I, somehow, find it oddly romantic. Here we have Antigone, sentenced to death by her own Uncle, Creon, hanging herself. Upon finding her, her husband-to-be, Haemon, is heartbroken. We see him cradling her close, tears flowing from his eyes and he weeps over his love. Then, Creon has to come in and say, "WTF have you done, moron? Let's find your a new one." Imagine you the person you love the most, beit a significant other or simply a close friend. If you have found them lifeless, would you want someone to barge in and reprove you? You feel that anger you feel for that person? That's how Haemon feels toward Creon, and I feel his response was totally within reason. It was Creon's fault in the first place his son had to go through this heartbreak, and he's talking like Haemon did something wrong! After Creon runs, Haemon kills himself simply to be with Antigone. This relates to what we talked about in class, about how back then, as is the case now, love is madness. The sheer image of Haemon, dieing, cradling Antigone close, is, a least to me, a scene belonging to a love story. It bears a remarkable resemblance to Romeo and Juliet, star cross'd lovers who, like Haemon and Antigone, were only together in death. To quote the Disney film, Hercules, "People do crazy things when they're in love."

Question: Did anybody else feel that connection to Romeo and Juliet or simply the fact that it was sorta romantic? Or am I just really hopeless? Eh? Eh?