Prologue wants to help us, the audience understand the world and to prepare us for the tragedy about to unfold. Haemon—male identifying. Son of Creon, fiancé of Antigone. Ismene—Female identifying.
Ismene has arrived to tell her father about his sons that are in the midst of a battle over the throne. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone. He ...