Polynices

have to face the consequences, which include the fate of his family.“What must I do? Tell me, and I will do it.” (155, Antigone) This exhibits Creon’s softer side and shows he does feel bad and want to right his wrongs. He desperately tries to bury Polynices and free Antigone, but it too late. The real blow hits when Creon discovers that his son killed himself “when Creone saw them into the cove he went moaning piteously./ oh my

Creon was extremely loyal to his laws that he had made, and Antigone was loyal to her beliefs. Nothing was going to change either of them. When Antigone was brought in by the sentry, Creon was disturbed to find out Antigone was the person burying Polynices. He was extremely upset

law over other loyalties, and his belief that to allow any anarchy or, seemingly, freedom would threaten the state. Creon’s method of executing Antigone is interesting. By entombing a living person, Antigone, and denying burial to a dead person, Polynices, Creon’s laws seem to go against common sense, tradition, and nature itself. Creon does not keep a cool head, as a wise leader should, or look for a way to compromise. He is as stubborn as Antigone, as if this were a street fight, he feels he could

fits all the requirements of a tragic hero. Creon believed that his own decisions and rulings would benefit his kingdom for the better. However, his decisions and rulings end up leading to his downfall when Antigone decides to bury her brother, Polynices, which Creon ruled was against the law to do. Being the fair king he is, Creon believed he had no other choice but to punish Antigone for her actions. Creon’s decision to punish Antigone ultimately ends up in tragedy for him. Many would argue that

moral extreme is the “political sphere” of life and Antigone, the “private sphere” holds the truth. She wants to bury her brother, Polynices (Galens). A proper burial for those killed in battle was essential for the Ancient Greeks (Fletcher). To give Polynices his proper burial, she infringes upon her Uncle Creon 's laws that specifically forbid her from burying Polynices as he was an enemy of the people. She wishes to follow and interpret the traditions and rituals the divine gods expect, and hence

In the play Antigone, The king of Thebes, Creon, decrees that Polynices should not be given a proper burial because he is a traitor and turns against his city. When Antigone asks her sister, Ismene, to help her bury their brother, Ismene refuses to help her: “I’d do them no dishonor… but defy the city? I have no strength

you.¨ This theme is shown through two different ways through the character emotion and how they reacted and the conflict that happens. One way this theme was developed was through character emotion. When Creon made the law that no one could give polynices

men.”   The guard exits with the intention of saving his own skin by never reappearing before Creon. But shortly thereafter he again approaches Creon with the startling news that the guilty party has been apprehended in the act of burying Polynices’ corpse: “I have come, though 'tis in breach of my sworn oath, bringing this maid; who was taken showing grace to the dead.” The guard’s recounting of the actions of Antigone develop her character into all of its fullness as a most sentimental and

Oedipus, Antigone’s father, had four children: Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles and Polynices. After Oedipus’ death, the two sons were meant to share the rulership of their town, Thebes, alternating between the two of them, starting with the elder, Eteocles. He then refused to pass the power on to his brother, who consequentially gathered foreign forces and launched an attack on his brother and the city, in which the brothers killed each other. Creon, Antigone’s uncle, immediately became king and ordered

dramatic play Antigone that Sophocles had formulated, carries out a complex and increasingly suspenseful plot. Creon, the king of Thebes, establishes a law that deprives Polynices, one of the two brothers that had died fighting for his rightful seat on the throne, a proper burial due to the attack of his own city. In response, Polynices’ sister Antigone defies this law behind Creon’s back and is as a consequence, sentenced to death. Yet, Creon’s judgements ultimately lead to his downfall as he loses