Polynices

decisions of the characters and helps lead the story into the climax. The beginning of the play begins with Antigone and her sister, Ismene. Antigone presents her plan of burying their brother, Polynices, whose body had been denied a proper burial by their uncle, King Creon, since in his eyes Polynices had been seen as an enemy to the city. Antigone wanted Ismene to accompany her, but Ismene immediately refused in fear of the consequences. Ismene states “We are women and we do not fight with men/

women were threated and viewed as lesser individuals. In the end, Creon’s decisions as the ruler backfire as Antigone, Hæmon, and his wife, Eurydice, wind up being dead due to his actions. If Creon had never placed the proclamation of not burying Polynices, then many deaths could have been saved. The personal identity in Antigone

gives Polynices a proper burial and goes to free Antigone from the tomb, she was banished too. When Creon gets there he finds his son Haemon raving over Antigone hanging body from a noose. Before Creon could stop Haemon, He turned his sword to his father, but end up killing himself embracing his fiancé body. Creon, feeling inconsiderate and thoughtless about his actions carries his son’s body back

Two of the contrasting principles in the conflict between Creon and Antigone is the rights of citizens as opposed to the sovereign power of leaders. On page 83, Antigone states, “Nor did I think your edict had such force that you, a mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions”. She values her religious freedom over the laws of political leaders, such as Creon. Unlike man-made laws, her religion was eternal. In addition, Haemon says on page 95, “But it’s for me to

insular persistence that leads to her ultimate decline in the play as well as others around her. After the death of her two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, Creon becomes the new ruler of Thebes. With this, he grants Eteocles an honorable funeral service for his brave fighting. Claiming that Polynices was a traitor, he shows complete refusal to grant Polynices a respectable and worthy service. Clearly

Antigone is characterized as a rebellious girl, who turns into a martyr, and just lost both her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, in a war between the city-states of Thebes and Argos. Eteocles was fighting the war on Thebes’s side, Thebes is where they live, but Polynices was fighting for the Argos army. Creon, the king of Thebes as well as Antigone’s uncle, has made a law that Polynices may not be

one's life. Although, by both of Sophocles’ plays it is revealed that family has more of a value for him. For example, in Antigone, Antigone gets in trouble because she buried her brother, Polynices. She wanted to bury her brother because she felt the need to honor her family. It was a disrespect to her that Polynices was not buried. In Oedipus The King, Oedipus was trying to avoid making the prophecies come true by him marrying his mother and killing his father. The fact that he was trying so hard to

adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” - Abraham lincoln. In Antigone power is an influence that corrupts or strengthens those who have it. After the battle between Ideocules and Polynices Creon enforces the law that Ideocules is to be buried as a hero while Polynices is a criminal left for the buzzards. Antigone can not fathom the thought of Polyneices, her beloved brother, being defaced by Creon. When she is eventually caught for burying Polyneices she is sentenced to

makes the choice to bury her brother, Polynices. After the death of Oedipus and his sons, Polynices and Eteocles, Creon is crowned the new ruler of Thebes. However, before Creon had been crowned and made the new ruler of Thebes, the brothers had encountered war and conflict. Both had been slain on the battlefield, with Polynices left to the dogs because he was seen as a traitor to Thebes and its people. Despite the law that Creon had put down preventing Polynices from being buried, Antigone makes the

! Creon: A Bad Leader Being a good leader means that someone is humble, thoughtful and unselfish. Creon is a rather weak man who has been placed into a position of authority and is incapable of handling the position well. He is a self-conceited man who is also very narrow minded. Creon who only thinks of himself, not the good of the people, causes him to lose many dear family members. And he doesn 't like to be wrong or to be told that he is wrong. He is stubborn and doesn 't want to change