Polynices

strive with men” (Fiero, 53). Ismene is trying to convince her stubborn sister Antigone, it is not their role to challenge the male authority. Unfortunately, when Antigone is accompanied by the guards to Creon, she confirms her actions of burying Polynices to Creon and then is sentenced to starve in a cave. In Antigone, it was a patriarchal society like the Golden Age because Antigone’s outcomes of disobeying the male rules becomes a…

takes place. According to Creon, who acts as the embodiment of the state, Antigone’s brother Polynices has lost his entitlement to a proper burial and funeral because he attacked his native Thebes. It is considered by Creon to be completely irrelevant that Polynices was simply trying to retake part of a kingdom that was rightfully intended to be his. All that matters is that by attacking his homeland, Polynices is deemed a traitor as he is no longer loyal to the city that raised him and…

Antigone has many characteristics of a feminist due to her belief in the way she was treated and her actions. It was certainly abnormal of a typical woman to rebel against a male in ancient Greek times. Creon, the newest ruler of Thebes, declared that Polynices, Antigone's brother, as a traitor, and a man of degradation while fighting a battle against his brother.…

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Firstly, Creon makes a decree stating that no one can bury Polynices, Antigone’s brother who almost destroyed the city, with death as the consequence. Creon expects Polynices to be “unwept, unburied” with no one able to mourn him, but Antigone believes this goes against divine law, so she decides to “bury him [her]self / [a]nd even if [she] die[s] in the act, that death…

more than women who do not really grasp their actions, which gives the character, Elektra an advantage, when it came down to her being punished for Clytemnestra’s death, and with Antigone she was given the option to apologize for trying to bury Polynices yet she chose to receive the full punishment for her transgressions against…

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into controlling the country in the next years. One year later, Polynices’s turn gets rejected by the king himself because he believes it is not to his greatest advantage or that of the Kingdom to hand over the ability to his brother Polynices to take over, so Polynices becomes furious, and decides to raise an army and take over the royal position. Later on, after the king realizes that all seven gates of Thebes are being threat, he recalls the curse the father put on the two brothers. After…

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as he did not give Polynices a proper burial. Antigone showed a rebellious attitude toward Creon’s actions, “To die in the attempt, if it’s a crime, Then it’s a crime that god commands” (Sophocles, Antigone 4). During the prologue, it is revealed that Antigone believes that divine laws are man’s laws. She realizes that god has control over whether she lives or dies. However, Creon believes in a different set of guidelines. Creon does not want to show any remorse to Polynices or Antigone even…