Eurydice of Thebes

Creon's royal decree by performing sacred burial rites for her exiled brother, Polyneices. Polyneices has been declared an enemy of the state by Creon. The sentence for anyone attempting to bury him is death by stoning. Creon has become King of Thebes by default, as a result of Oedipus' fate as previously predicted by the Oracle at Delphi: Oedipus murders his father and unknowingly marries his mother. Jocaste, his mother and wife and Creon's sister, commits suicide upon learning the truth.

Antigone is characterized as a rebellious girl, who turns into a martyr, and just lost both her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, in a war between the city-states of Thebes and Argos. Eteocles was fighting the war on Thebes’s side, Thebes is where they live, but Polynices was fighting for the Argos army. Creon, the king of Thebes as well as Antigone’s uncle, has made a law that Polynices may not be

even if she is family. His job is to protect and uphold the laws of the state. If he does not punish Antigone he will look as though he is a weak ruler. Since Creon is related to Antigone, he must carry out the punishment of Antigone so the people of Thebes will see him as a strong and powerful king.      Haemon does not want to Antigone to die for what she has done. He attempts to convince his father that he should change his view about Antigone going against Creon’s decree

character emotion. When Creon made the law that no one could give polynices a proper burial and that if someone was caught in the act they were to be killed. Creon create this law because Polynices fought for the other side Argos and killed a lot of thebes soldier. This made Antigone mad because he is her brother by blood. She tell Ismene her sister ¨He is my brother and deny it as you will your brother too. No one will convict me for a traitor.¨ She is annoyed that the law will convicted her for burying

Sophocles shows how power can be corrupted through hubris and invokes the limits of power of a ruler. Also, Sophocles exposes how the presence of dominance can Antigone continues to argue with Creon over the justification of her harsh sentence. Within the heated debate, Antigone says to Creon that “Not a man here would say the opposite, were his tongue not locked in fear. Unfortunately, tyranny (blessed in so much else besides) can lay down the law down any way it wants” (Sophocles 212). Within

beginning of Sophocles’ play, Antigone is perceived as an outcast who is not to be associated with and was rejected among the people in the land of Thebes. Although Antigone exhibits good personality and morals, her past is crucial to the development of the play and impacts her portrayal to the people of Thebes. As her father, Oedipus, abandons the land of Thebes, it causes the people to despise Antigone and her entire family. The rejection of Antigone family is further intensified by the war between Eteocles

Chorus’ attitude/ comments? Quote- inference- author’s intention) Secondly, the basis of Creon’s demise is extensively due to his arrogance and pride, which is also responsible for the deaths of his house. Creon obtains the authority of being king of Thebes and as a result, he gains a considerable amount of arrogance. He feels that his authority overrules those of any other being, and that he is “responsible to only [himself]”. This establishes that Creon does not and will not consider the opinions and

Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws as a peaceful form of political protest. In Antigone, civil disobedience is evident in Antigone’s actions towards Creon. Creon’s decision to leave Polynices’ body in a state of unrest angers Antigone, and she decides to take action against Creon’s decision. Antigone’s rebellion most closely resembles Ghandi’s idea of civil disobedience, in which one disobeys laws through peaceful protest. Antigone’s actions are almost in contrast to the

must answer for their actions. The events of “Antigone” follow the Theban civil war, in which the two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, die fighting each other for the throne of Thebes after Eteocles had refused to give up the crown to his brother as their father Oedipus had prescribed. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles is to be honored and Polynices is to be disgraced by leaving his body unburied on the battlefield (a harsh and shameful punishment at the time). As the

Once Oedipus was grown up, he heard about this fate and went on the road to Thebes to escape it and killed a man. He becomes ruler of Thebes when he solves the sphinx riddle and his people are in a plague and ask for his help.. “ I know; I learned of him from others; I never saw him(8)” he actually did see him because he murdered him. “ Eventually he finds out he murdered the king of Thebes. “Put your questions. I am no murderer(30)” this quotation shows the arrogance Oedipus holds