Polynices

and divine law, these two laws represent Ancient people’s view towards their destiny and their belief to god. Human follows a set of rules to survive in Ancient time. They treat the rules as common sense and obey without hesitant. Creon announces Polynices is a traitor therefore “Creon has laid him in the earth” (Sophocles 60). In divine law, a dead person must be buried after death. Creon’s arrogant attitude encourages him to build his own law and against the gods. He believes he is the king,…

Questions A: 1. Antigone is distraught since her uncle, Creon, banned the burial of Polynices, her brother. 2. Ismene does not want to break the law. She also mentions that she is a woman, so she cannot cope with men. She is also afraid of being stoned in public, which is the punishment for burying Polynices. 3. Antigone is disappointed at her sister for not helping her to bury their brother. She does not care what Ismene thinks, and she said she will go through with the burial herself. 4. The…

the deaths of Polyneices and Eteocles. The two brothers both died fighting for the power of Thebes, and Creon became king. Polynices attacked the city and Eteocles defended Thebes. As a result, Creon decided that Eteocles be buried with honor unlike Polynices. This ruling sparked tension with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and sister of Polynices who believed that Polynices deserved a proper burial as well. Infuriated with the disrespect her dead brother was receiving, Antigone talked with…

It was law of Thebes that traitors are to never be buried and as Kind of Thebes, Creon could not exempt Polynices burial just for Antigone since she was his son Haemon, future wife. So this quote which Creon is saying means that yet Antigone, you knew that burring traitors is against the law of the land, you still choose to do it . And Antigone replies that…

in a horrible manner by considering the other person with insolence. In other words, the behavior shown between one person and the other is the way in how they treat each other. Around 441 BC, Sophocles wrote the Antigone tragedy. In the play, Polynices and Eteocles were sons of Oedipus and Jocasta; they were the two brothers of the leading…

After Antigone is caught burying Polynices, she defends herself by claiming, “Nor did I think that your edict had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions” (503-505). Creon’s belief that his law is able to substitute for divine…

and two daughter. Oedipus’ sons Eteocles and Polynices agreed that one their father had died they would take the throne to one year to the next. (CITE). However, Eteocles refused to pass the throne to his brother Polynices. As the tension rises between the brothers, they both end up killing each other. Creon was the next to take the throne as the uncle of the family. The family discord led King Creon to give proper burial to Eteocles and leave Polynices to rot in an open without proper burial.…

die in battle, Creon blames Polynices because he was a ‘traitor’ to Thebes: “...Polynices, who returned here/... to destroy/ His homeland/…[Creon has] ordered/ That he is to have no grave at all./ No one is to bury him…” (11). Although Creon is upset with Polynices, he goes to major extremes to humiliate him more. Despite Polynices’s ability to suffer more now that he is dead, Creon must give himself the gratification of disgracing Polynices. Not only can Polynices not be buried, but Creon must…

actions towards Antigone when she wanted to give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. Polynices is Creon’s nephew, but he was on Eteocles’s side when it came to choosing one of the two brothers. This whole time Antigone just wanted her brother to have a proper burial, but Creon got in the way of that, and decided that he was going to lock her in a dungeon for her to die of starvation. Creon had a very strong opinion of not letting Polynices get a proper burial. Creon wouldn’t let anyone…

tragedy has become an absolute fate which Antigone must violate the law whether it is natural law or human law. After King Oedipus died, his two sons are fighting for the kingship. Eteocles leads the citizens of Thebe defending the attack from Polynices who is leading the enemy state. The two sons die at the same day at this war. Creon succeeds to the throne because…