Same story??

Is it just me or do the two stories of Oedipus and Antigone appear to be very similar? Many of the characters in Antigone seem to resemble those in Oedipus. A few other people have already mentioned Creon becoming eerily similar to the way Oedipus was when he was king. Both become to full of themselves and feel they are by far superior to everyone around them in not only rank but also knowledge. I also believe that Haimon is much like the old Creon as Adam stated. They both honored and respected their king, but when it came down to it they spoke out for what they thought was right. I then felt that Jocasta and Ismene are similar to a point. Both of these characters try and protect the main characters, Oedipus and Antigone, but cannot get them to change their mind. The sequence in both plays also appeared very similar to me. Both start out with a town that recently got a new king who is becoming too full of himself. The towns are also in a crisis at the time, Oedipus trying to figure out how to find the murderer of Laius and Creon proclaiming what he has decided to do with the two brothers who died. Each king begins to gradually lose support of their decision from the city and become very hot-tempered. They have too much pride to admit they are wrong even when the great prophet Teiresias, who is my favorite character, prophesizes the future for them. Both kings doubt him although he is said to have never been wrong. Finally, the plays end with the kind being proved wrong and many lives being taken, many by suicide. In my opinion these plays were very similar and it was easy for me to predict what would happen next and I thought it was very obvious that Eurydice would take her life at the end much in the same way Jocasta did after hearing about all the terrible deaths that had taken place.