 Creon would be deprived of grandchildren and heirs to his lineage – a fact which provides a strong realistic motive for his hatred against Antigone.This modern perspective has remained submerged for a long time.Martin Heidegger, in his essay, "The Ode on Man in Sophocles’ Antigone", focuses on the chorus’ sequence of stophe and antistrophe that begins on line 278.