Polynices

talking to her sister Ismene about the death of her brother Eteocles and Polynices and the unfairness of the king Creon. The conflict between Antigone and Creon starts when Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, kill each other in a battle. Since Polynices violated the laws, Creon orders that anyone who tries to bury Polynices will be stoned to death. When Antigone tries to convince her sister to help her burry Polynices, Ismene tells her sister that should obey Creon because she is a…

In the story Antigone, the King of Thebes, Creon, showed that too much power will corrupt anyone. As Creon became the one with total control, his character, judgment, and his principals deteriorated. Antigone was written by Sophocles. He did an excellent job of showing how absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything he once stood for had crumbled. Antigone begins by telling of a Theban royal family which is in much turmoil. There are…

Throughout the play “Antigone” the concept of Divine Law versus Human Law is very prevalent. The king of Thebes, Creon, forbade anyone from burying Polynices because he is a traitor to the city. He is to be left on the battlefield unburied and unmourned. Antigone becomes upset because she believes her dead brother is a victim of injustice. She intends on providing that for him. The idea of leaving her brother alone, unburied, in a field where he may be devoured by wolves, vultures, and other…

interruption each individual makes according to their own religious connections. In Antigone, the protagonist Antigone acts of divine law. Antigone believes that although the state has its own laws, so do the Gods thus urging her to give her brother Polynices a proper burial. According to the antagonist and the king of Thebes, Creon, mankind should obey the laws of the state rather than divine laws that are determined by each individual. Furthermore, famous philosopher Emmanuel Kant’s ideas of…

their brothers Polynices and Eteocles. The brothers both killed each other in battle, and only one of them is getting the proper burial that they both deserve. The brothers had been fighting over their shared profession of being King of Thebes. Their Uncle Creon obtained the role of King and deemed who was to receive a proper burial. Polynices was deemed a traitor to Thebes and was deemed to rot but Eteocles was deemed a proper burial to be honored. Antigone wanted to give Polynices a burial and…

believed that an unburied person would not find rest. In order for Antigone to be the tragic hero, she must be a good upstanding person. That is why Antigone feels like its her duty to bury the body of her own brother, Polynices. Antigone’s effort to bring honor to her family by giving Polynices a decent burial represents her morals, she has to rely on herself to decide whether or not her morals are worth risking her life for. She knows that Creon has specifically demanded “He must be left…

of familial duty’s place within the polis amplifies Antigone’s anger causing her to act outside her gender archetype, which was generally seen to be passive and completely absorbed in the maintenance of the Oikos. In Creon’s edict he states that Polynices “…must be left unburied, his corpse carrion for the birds and dogs to tear...” (Sophocles 230). This harsh proclamation triggers Antigone to take her actions one step further into the political sphere. Antigone does this to partly defy of…

develop her beliefs or give reason to her actions. With that, the reader doesn 't get a solid answer about why she has to bury her brother or how she has accepted that if she tries to bury him she will die. When Creon and Antigone argue over burying Polynices, Creon questions her logic and all she says is, “No one. Myself,” (Anouilh 35). After that they just quarrel and she doesn 't explain herself beyond that. With the character Creon, he is more of a character who feels that his actions are…

The Stories of Niobe and Danaë to Foreshadow Antigone’s Fate Sophocles’s Antigone follows Antigone, a girl born to the royal but doomed house of Cadmus. She is brought before her uncle Creon for breaking his law and burying her traitorous brother Polynices. As she waits for her sentence, stories of mortals and gods alike are told, including those of Niobe and Danaë. These stories of Niobe and Danaë are incorporated to foreshadow Antigone’s fate of being left to die in a rocky vault. Sophocles…

ancient Greek drama Antigone and how I define her as heroic. At the beginning of Sophocles play, “Polynices and Eteocles (Antigone and Ismene’s brothers) kill each other in a dispute…