Antigone

Ahh. Don't we love reading other family's feuds? They just provide an escape from our own feuding and quibbling relatives. The family of Creon, Antigone and Ismene is far beyond arguing over the turkey and dressing at Thanksgiving.

The fall of brothers Eteocles and Polynices in a luckless and unfortunate duel between each other sets the theme of this time enduring read: What is family worth?

Hailed a hero by King Creon, Eteocles is honored in his heroic death. The traitorous Polynices is ordered to decompose and flesh-out by forgoing a burial. Antigone, their sister, is determined to honor Polynices' right to a burial, even though it means disobeying Creon.

Ismene, the other sister, is not sure whether to obey the law as an honorable and respectable citizen would do, or to honor her brother that has been left to rot in the streets. The sisters will either rebel against Creon's will together or separate.

If you like soap-operas and escaping your own familiar stresses Antigone will make you realize how suttle your family arguments really our.

Antigone is chalked full of decisions and choices. However the crucial and underlying choice is this: Respect for family or the law?