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…showed last 75 words of 1450 total…d insights the characters experience pull the reader into the story. There is real drama, and believable characters, and real tension.. The main characters, dramatically opposed to each other in intent, come to understand the viewpoint of the other, even though they cannot accept it. This movement toward both separation and understanding works on all the characters, Creon as much as Antigone. Their fatal contrast is between loyalty to family and loyalty to the law.