Eurydice of Thebes

Now the king of Thebes, Creon’s strict laws regarding the unburial of Antigone’s brother, Polyneices, show his hubris. When Tiresias tells him of his wrongdoings, Creon accuses him of being bought to bring false information, as Oedipus did several years ago. Here, he’s

respect. Antigone, being rash and quick to act, hung herself. Her flaw led to the death of her future husband and his mother (Eurydice). Haemon was enraged by his fathers actions against his bride to be and, his failed attempt to murder Creon was followed by his own suicide. Haemon’s mother heard of what her son had done and, took her own life. Though Haemon and Eurydice committed suicide it was Antigone’s actions that led to their self annihilation. Creon is not tenacious in nature. He wavers

Creon: The King of Thebes with his Queen Eurydice and father to Haemon. Creon decrees only the one brother, Eteocles, should be buried traditionally and the other one Polyneices should be left for the birds and animals to finish off. However, Antigone wants to bury her brother deemed

Antigone written by Sophocles, performed in 441 B.C.E., is a short play about the aftermath of the battle between Eteocles and Polyneices. These two men, both sons of Oedipus, were fighting to be the king of Thebes, but they both die during their battle. Creon, the leader of Thebes, decides to have Eteocles buried, but leaves Polyneices on the battlefield. Antigone, Creon’s nephew, is a bit rebellious and thinks it was unfair that only one of her brothers was buried. She decides to bury Polyneices

In the play, Antigone, written by Sophocles, King Creon of Thebes sentences his niece, Antigone, to death for burying her brother, Polyneices, even after the act had been declared a crime. Like father, like son, Creon expected his son, Haemon to follow his decisions and agree with him, wholeheartedly. Haemon, however, did not agree with the death sentence given to his beloved fiancée. The conflicting opinions of father and son reveals not only the theme of pride in the play, but how this pride affected

punishments equal mine”. Because Creon is the last one of his family, he has to live alone without a family, must stay alive in order to keep Thebes under control, he then and living without anyone is his curse, where as Antigone gets the easy way out by killing herself. When Creon learns in the middle of the éxodos that his last son, Haimon, and his wife, Eurydice (the queen), have both killed themselves, as well as his other son dying in battle just the day before, Creon wishes to no longer live because

alongside her sister, but Antigone insists on shouldering full responsibility.” Ismene does not want to see her sister executed for she has already lost her parents, and both brothers in one day. In addition, Ismene “sees herself-and the women of Thebes-as disempowered and assailable. Attentive to political vulnerability, Ismene refuses Antigone’s request to publicly violate Creon’s decree forbidding the mourning or burial of her brother Polyneices, on pain of death.” While Ismene struggles to come

Creon proclaimed an order to the city of Thebes that said, “Polyneices should be unburied, unwept, a feast of flesh for keen-eyed carrion birds.” Antigone disobeyed this order by burying her brother Polyneices. Creon was infuriated by Antigone’s actions and his decisions led to his disastrous fate. Although in the end of the play, Creon lead with his emotions, for the majority of the play he is rational because his decisions were based on the well being of Thebes, he punished his niece and sent her away

and the suicides of Haimon and his mother Eurydice. Sophocles not only alludes to the power of love, but the way in which untamed love can “serve upon ruin” (Sophocles 224). Sophocles first displays the failure of love through the war and deaths of Polyneices and Eteocles. Polyneices, the brother of Antigone and Eteocles, has broken familial ties and gone against his own people, as he is a commander in the Argive army that attacked his home city of Thebes. With this background, Sophocles is able

deaths of Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice, we now hear some information behind Antigone’s reasoning for burying her brother. We also learn why she wanted to break the law, and also how she tried to convince her sister, Ismene, to help her in doing the deed. Antigone brought up their brothers in a discussion between her and her Ismene. Their brothers both died during a fight over who is king of Thebes. They both killed each other but since one was the king of Thebes he was buried and the other was