Eurydice of Thebes

more important than his father's good leadership. Kreon then reassures his son of the verdict "No: I will kill her (Line 799). Haimon goes on to tell his father what the citizens say about this decision. Haimon tells his father that the people of Thebes believe that Antigone's fate should not be death but glory. They feel that burying her slain brother is a very noble deed. Haimon pleads with his father to listen to the people for once, "But it's no shame for even a wise man to learn and to relent"

Oedipus and Jocasta. Her siblings are Polyneices, Eteocles, and Ismene. Antigone is engaged to Haemon who is the son of the Creon, the new king of Thebes. In the play, Polyneices and his brother Eteocles killed each other in a battle for the control of Thebes. Polyneices was attacking the town of Thebes and Eteocles was defending it. The new king of Thebes, King Creon, wanted Eteocles to be buried but not Polyneices. It was believed that if the dead were buried they would be honored by the Gods and

Then I will write about the positive male role models and then the negative ones. The characters that I will be writing about are: Antigone, the main protagonist of the play; Eurydice, the wife of King Creon; Ismene, Antigone’s younger sister; Haemon, Antigone’s fiancé and Creon’s son; and finally Creon, the King of Thebes. The play provides and nice mix of male and females characters, each with their own example and lesson for masculinity or femininity. The play Antigone was written by a Greek

after their father dies. They end up both dying which leaves Creon, thier uncle, king. Creon gave Eteocles a proper greek burial but left Polynices unburied to be eaten by eagles and wolves. He believed that Polynices was going against the city of Thebes, thus making him a traitor. Going against the gods and his people shows that, Creon was unfit to be King. Not only did he go against his people, but he also inflicted his negative

irrational decisions. He made a decision to kill anyone who buried Polyneices, saying, “Polyneices, I say, is to have no burial. No man is to touch him (197),” in his hopes of pleasing the citizens of Thebes. Creon wanted to please us, because Polyneices was a rebel, and tried to start a war against Thebes. However, this decision is the most irrational as it punishes people for doing a good deed which is burying a dead person. Even his son Haimon admits this decision was horrible, saying “She kept him

play Antigone by Sophocles, the playwright delineates Antigone's disobedience of Creon's rules when she insists on burying her brother, Polyneices. Furthermore, Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice all die at the end of the play due to Creon’s excessive pride. Creon accepts hierarchy as he enforces it because he is King of Thebes, which ultimately leads to his downfall; in addition, he also works against the hierarchy of the gods that later compels him to set aside his pride. In the play, Creon follows the

Sophocles. Antigone and Ismene, Oedipus’s daughters, discuss a disaster that has just developed. Their brothers Eteocles and Polynices have been killed during a battle for control over Thebes. Creon is now the cities ruler, and he has ordered that Polynices not be given a proper burial because he brought a foreign army to Thebes. Creon placed sentries over his body and threatens to kill anyone who tries to properly bury him. Antigone, in spite of Creon’s new ruling gives her brother a proper burial. A nervous

In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, Creon, who is the king of Thebes, has a prideful personality that leads to his downfall of loneliness. Exiling Antigone, Creon punishes her since she broke the law, but he also never listens to anyone’s output because of his superior ego. Utilizing Creon’s idealism of the law being superior, Sophocles illuminates the theme—pride leads to failure. Throughout the play, Creon reiterates that the law is above all, and the city comes first. Sending Antigone to an isolated

The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles (tr. Robert Fagles) follows the result of a war on Thebes. Antigone’s two brothers (Polyneices and Eteocles) fought against each other in a civil war for control of Thebes. After both brothers were killed in the war, Creon becomes king, and orders that Polyneices, the brother on the opposing side, not receive a proper burial. This decree leads Antigone to ignore Creon in order to give Polyneices the burial the Gods require. Antigone is convicted, and condemned

evident. The promotion to the conflict was that Creon created a law in which enabled Polynieces, Antigone’s brother, to be buried in the proper way. As it is the way of the gods Antigone found it fit to bury her brother causing her to disobey the law of Thebes. Both Antigone and Creon, the main characters, could represent a tragic hero. However Creon is more eligible for being the tragic hero because he fits the definition. Aristotle’s idea of a tragic hero was that the character was of