Eurydice of Thebes

listen to Teiresias’s warning prophecies, burying Antigone alive for disobeying his order. Right as Creon realizes his mistake and recalls this order, Antigone kills herself. This leads to the suicides of Creon’s son Haemon, and his wife Eurydice, with Eurydice cursing Creon for the deaths of Antigone and Haemon. At the end of the play, he is left alone with the knowledge of his mistakes, wishing for death. Because of Creon’s pride, he refused to listen to the counsel of others, leading to tragedy

The true tragic hero of the play Antigone, by Sophocles, has been a question many people have been asking. Creon, the king of Thebes, gives one of Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles, a proper burial, but leaves her other brother’s, Polyneices, body to be eaten by birds and wild dogs. Because of this decision, he ends up losing his entire family because of his pride, or hubris. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, does not want her brother’s body to be shamed in such a way, and creates a plan to secretly

and Antigone is his fiancee. In an emotional conversation with his father, Haemon defends the proper essence of Antigone's actions while cautioning his father that the people of Thebes agree with her dedication to bury Polyneices. He and his father part in anger, as he simply asks his father to do what's right for Thebes, and his father firmly pursues the path of the outermost struggle. Haemon's love to Antigone is clear; at her death, he is so tormented that he tries to kill his father and then

the ruler of Thebes, made a decision that ultimately impacted not only his own, but others, lives. Creon concluded the best thing for Thebes was to deny the burial of a traitor, however, Creon’s lack of judgement and stubbornness caused his downfall. In the beginning of the tragedy, Creon was recently appointed king of Thebes and he already held the city in a high esteem and because of that he wanted to do the best possible thing for the security and wellbeing of the people of Thebes. Creon explained

Jacob Thampan Mr.Logan English 1A OCTOBER @* 2015 Creon's Corrupt Heart In the play Antigone by Sophocles Creon is the king of Thebes. In this piece Creon becomes overwhelmed with the power given to him as king. The result is Creon turning into a corrupt king. He orders laws that must be followed with consequences of death. He uses the body of his nephew, Polyneices, as a way of frightening the people into submission. And finally Creon walls up his niece, Antigone, to die because she disobeyed him

“Everything I’ve touched I have destroyed” (Heaney 74). In The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone translated by Seamus Heaney, tragedy runs rampant all throughout the story. The plot focuses on the conflict between Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, and Creon, the newly-crowned King of Thebes. Upon being crowned, Creon makes an edict banning Polyneices, the brother of Antigone, from being given a proper burial because he was considered a traitor. Antigone responds by breaking Creon’s

In the classic Greek tragedy, Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon portrays the characteristics of a tragic protagonist. As a tragic protagonist, Creon is faced with a very difficult dilemma. He has to choose either to abide by his law and punish Antigone, or to abide by the laws of the gods and forgive Antigone and let her bury Polynices. His councilors did everything in their power to advice him. However, when he realized the outcome of his decisions, it was too late. Creon’s choices brought him from

story about the struggle between Antigone, who represents the laws of the gods and Creon, who represents the laws of the state. The play takes place circa 442 B.C. in the city-state of Thebes. The story revolves around the burial of Polyneices. Polyneices led an army against his brother, Etocles, the King of Thebes. They killed each other in battle and the new king, Creon, made a decree that only Etocles was to be buried because Polyneices was his rival. Antigone, sister of Polyneices and Etocles

According to German philosopher Hegel, at the center of Sophocles’ Antigone we find not a tragic hero but a tragic collision. However, Antigone and Kreon have different positions on what’s right and what’s wrong. I agree with Hegel because this conflict is not between good and evil but between one-sided positions, each of which embodies some good. Antigone’s obligation to give her brother a suitable burial and King Kreon’s edict that enemies of the state should not be allowed burial are both justified

Antigone, one of the Three Theban Plays, which was translated by Robert Fagles, was set in Thebes, ancient Greece. It is an example of how much power can go to someone’s head one they have it. Creon, the king, had banned anyone from burying one of Antigone’s brothers because he was said to be a traitor. Antigone wanted her brother wanted to be buried with the rest of her family, and so she rebels against the king and buries her brother, even when her sister advises her not to. In the end, everyone