Returning Empty-Handed:Antigone in the Sentry's Eyes

        In this section of literature, Antigone is compared to a bird returning to its nest, its babies gone. This relates to Antigone's situation because she left her brother's grave and when she returned it was empty with the body on top..The sentry said, "She cried out a sharp, piercing cry, like a bird returning to an empty nest, peering into its bed, and all the babies gone..."(Sophocles). This part of the passage is the governing metaphor. This metaphor reveals that Antigone is very much like a bird in  many ways. She is like a bird in the way that she cries out and also in the way that she is free-spirited and free-willed. This moment is significant in her character development because in this moment she was caught and brought into Creon. In this moment her whole life changed.