No sooner has Eurydice rushed into the house than Creon reurns, accompanying the body of his son. He has not had time to come to terms with his grief at Haemon's death - for which he blames himself, before a second blow falls. A servant comes out of the house,to say that the queen has taken her own life - in grief at the death in a single day of both her sons: Megareus killed in the fighting, and now Haemon. Creon is a broken man, accusing himself of murdering both his son and his wife. The play ends as the Chorus hope that Creon may have learned wisdom from all his suffering.