Antigone and Creon argue - each totally unable to see the other's point of view. Antigone's priority is to demonstrate her love for her brother: Creon's is to punish him from his treachery to the state. At the height of their angry scene, Ismene is brought in. Now she's ready to share her sister's death - and to accuse Creon of robbing his son of his bride: he and Antigone, she tells us, were betrothed. But Creon's response is a crude joke ("there are other fields for him to plough"), and he orders the two girls to be taken inside to await their death.