Polynices

right to his downfall. Excessive pride is also the cause of a dark fate in the play Antigone. Creon makes laws to create a peaceful kingdom. Unfortunately, he becomes very stubborn and excessive pride begins infecting him. Creon’s decision to leave Polynices corpse unburied and bury Antigone alive seal his fate. His hubris blinds him and Creon does not realize it until it is too late to right his wrongs. Fate cannot be avoided and defying it can lead to one’s true destiny. Sophocles’ play…

Antigone and Ismene, are grieving. Their uncle Creon has assumed control of Thebes and orders that Eteocles will be honored, and Polyneices will have his memory shamed. His body will lie unburied on the battlefield. Antigone vows to bury her brother Polynices' body in defiance of Creon's order, but Creon has issued a royal order banning the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Antigone breaks the law, gives her brother a proper burial, and is caught. When Creon sends her away in…

ritual wine:/ And my reward is death before my time!/ And yet, as men’s heart know, I have done no/ Wrong” (227). After that scene, Antigone kills herself. She doesn’t do it for a man nor does she have anyone else's feelings in mind besides hers and Polynices’. She does what she knows is…

Humanities: Society of Greece Throughout the course of history, in particularly the society of Greece, it is presumed that the idea of gods and divine supernatural beings have a high importance, especially in their literary works. On the contrary, an impacting theme of humanism is developed throughout many of their works. Similarly, but not limited to; Iliad, Antigone, and Nicomachean Ethics. These three works either emphasizes the human experience at the center of events, counteract their given…

When Antigone decides to bury her brother Polynices and give him a proper burial, she is taking a stand against power. But she believes that it is a duty of hers and that “she is doing what [she] must” (195). Although Creon issued the edict, Antigone thinks the gods are against it. This contrasts…

In the book, Antigone, it is mainly about the conflict between Antigone and her uncle. Her two brothers was the reason of the conflict, where they fight and killed each other for the throne. However, one of the brother, Polynices was given the title of traitor and was told not to be bury and was left out in the wilderness as food for the vultures. However the love that Antigone has for her brother tells her that she had to fight and find a way to bury her brother. Despite all the danger that she…

rudeness towards most of the characters, his actions also showed his arrogant nature. There are many quotes by Creon illustrating his feelings towards women in the play. The biggest and most obvious action by him was his rule regarding the burial of Polynices. When confronted by Antigone, Creon gave no remorse and not only treated her poorly but, made numerous statements regarding his feelings of superiority over her. In fact, it is…

learned from an oracle that he was destined to kill his father, he left Corinth in order to avoid the words of the oracle. However, Oedipus did not know the father he left in Corinth was not his real father, but his adopted father Polynices. Oedipus was found by Polynices when he was a baby and was never told that he was adopted. While leaving Corinth Oedipus met a man at the three way-crossroads where they quarreled over the direction of who should cross the cross-road first. Out of rage…

The concept of loyalty between kinsmen, kingdom and beloved in Antigone by Sophocles is seen throughout the play. When each character, Antigone, Ismene, Creon, Haemon and Eurydice's belief system got entangled, a feud broke out within the context of family, love and state. Thus it came to a tragic conclusion and left readers questioning whether what God had planned for them was morally or ethically correct. In Sophocles’s Antigone, the interplay of devotion among family, state and love causes a…

increased awareness, making Creon rethink everything he had done to cause and deserve all that pain. With noble stature Creon had many choices and laws he can make. One of Creon's first laws was to forbid the burial of Polyneices: “As for his brother [Polynices]... for him, the proclamation in the state declares he’ll have no burial mounds, no…