The messenger notes, "[Haemon] has won his bride at last, poor boy/not here but in the houses of the dead", which further illustrates how Haemon finally, but belatedly, expresses his feelings of love for Antigone (lines 1370-1371). ... While Creon, culpable for Antigone's death, does not receive punishment for his unjust civil laws, Haemon, an innocent soul, whose only transgression avows his love for his bride, felt so much misery that he commits suicide. ...

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