Polynices

Time and Scene: A Southern plantation house, at night. It is the spring of 1864, one year before the Confederate Army’s surrender at Appomattox. Brothers Earl and Paul, fighting on opposite sides of the war, have both died in a recent battle. Union General Creon has requisitioned the plantation as his command post and has declared martial law. A bugle sounds in the distance as two Union soldiers enter from the right side of the scene. The soldiers remove a Confederate banner that hangs from…

position of King of Thebes which complies with the requirement of high birth. As King, Creon possesses many good intentions for Thebes. He declared to his subjects, “When I see any danger threatening my people, Whatever it may be, I shall declare it… Polynices,…

When faced with the royal decree that denied her brother a proper burial, Antigone proudly broke the law of the city and granted Polynices his death rights to ensure the sanctity of his soul, as well as to appease the gods’ command that all must be buried. In response to an outraged Creon, Antigone scornfully replies that no “mortal man … could overrun the gods’ unwritten and unfailing…

Three Ancient Greek plays (Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, and Medea by Euripides) share some common similarities including prophecy, tragic flaws, and death. These three similarities occur in all the plays, and they are closely related to each other, meaning, one leading into the next. All these similarities are motifs and can be seen throughout the plays. The first similarity the plays have in common is their use of prophecies. Prophecies foreshadow events that will happen later in the…

His parents abandoned him, although still, later in life he fulfilled his prophecy. He and his mother had four children, Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles and Polynices. Creon's personality changes all throughout the book because of Antigone's actions. He feels that she should continue on with her life and bring happiness to Haemon. He thinks that happiness is the key to solving all of her problems. To him happiness…

Have you ever felt powerless in some situations? This is exactly how certain characters feel in the tragic (tragedy) play "Antigone", by Sophocles. The whole play revolves around the brothers Polyneices and Eteocles, the fact that Eteocles was given a proper burial, while Creon forbids a burial for Polyneices. Sisters Antigone, who strongly feels that she needs to bury her brother regardless of Creon's forbidding, and her law abiding sister Ismene, who feels that it is not worth trying to defy…

severe consequences. In Antigone by Sophocles, Creon is King of Thebes as well as Uncle to the protagonist, Antigone. Creon acts a power-driven tyrant whose law is his word. The story starts out with a royal mandate that the body of the traitor Polynices must not be touched and must be left to rot. Anyone…

Ismene is essentially telling Antigone she will not be able to stand up to Kreon, who is forbidding the proper burial of Polynices, and win simply because she is a woman. According to Ismene, no matter what Antigone does she will be inferior to Kreon due to her gender. On the next page Antigone says she will go against man, but her sister replies, “sweet sister, you aim too…

fought in a war, one for Thebes, and one against. They killed each other in battle and King Creon honored the one that fought for Thebes with a proper Greek burial, but has forbidden anyone to bury Polyneices, the brother who fought against him. “But Polynices, a dishonored corse, (so by report the royal edict runs), no man may bury him or make lament -- Must make him tombless and unwept.” Antigone believes it is her duty to give him a proper burial, and if she fails to do so, she believes his…

Antigone Essay In the play “Antigone” by Sophocles, unlike the Oedipus Tyrannus, paradoxically, the hero who is left in Tragedy at the end of the play is not the title role. Instead King Creon, the newly appointed and dictate ruler, is left alone, by himself with his wife's corpse in with him, having just seen the suicide of his son, Haemon and was the one to cause the royal bloodline to end. However, despite this pathetic fate for the character, his actions and behavior…