Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. Creon also declared that Polyneices would not receive a proper burial because he committed treason against his own city.
Creon punishes Antigone to death. Haemon is supposed to marry Antigone, however, when Creon banishes Antigone to her death, Haemon runs off. He is later found, dead by her side, after committing suicide for his lost love. Although he supposedly is the next in line to receive power to the throne, Eteocles takes over and banishes Polyneices from Thebes. Polyneices then gathers and army and attacks his brother. He ends up killing his brother, and being killed by his brother in battle.
He takes over the throne when he is old enough, and banishes Polyneices from Thebes. When Polyneices attacks Eteocles for the throne, Eteocles kills him, and is killed by same, simultaneously, in battle. Wikipedia, Antigone. Antigone Setting. The setting of this tragedy takes place in the city of Thebes. Oedipus, who was supposed to be the ruler of Thebes, was banished by Creon because he killed his father and married his brother.
Antigone Plot Summary. Oedipus was banished from Thebes, when the prophecy of patricide and incest was proven true. Oedipus left Thebes a blind and broken man.
As time passed, and the two sons aged, Eteocles claimed the throne for himself, exiling his older brother Polyneices. Polyneices then gathered a giant army and attacked Eteocles for the throne. Neither of the two sons won because they both ended up killing each other in battle. Her sister, Ismene, warns her against the dangers and consequences and states that she will not have any part in helping her sister with her scheme.
As guards brush the dirt off the body, she reveals herself willingly. Creon is enraged and imprisons both Antigone and Ismene, who he believes to be an accomplice. Creon ridicules Haemon for his ridiculous thoughts of freeing Antigone. Haemon then runs off, crushed that his father would treat his so badly.
Creon mocks Teiresias, but the chorus reminds Creon that the prophet has never been wrong. Creon then rushes to free Antigone, but it is too late, she is dead, and Haemon has killed himself for her. Creon is then lead away by the chorus, lamenting in his own self misery. BookRags, Antigone. Structure of Antigone. In the play, Throughout there interaction in the play, Ismene tries to convince Antigone to stop from continuing with her plans.
Antigone however does not care what Ismene has to say and tells her she would rather Obey the law of the gods rather than the law men have established. When Creon discovers someone has tried burying Polynices he is furious and he demands they find who tried to do this so they can pay with their life for disobeying him.
Antigone is caught and held captive. Throughout the play we see constant clashes between Antigone and Creon. Sophocles believed in democracy and he thought that one person having too much power was bad for its citizens.
Sophocles agreed with the direct democracy that came into existence during the 5th century, he did not oppose to it. In Antigone, we see that Creon has too much power and it is similar to a dictatorship. In Antigone, if a corpse is not given the proper burial then the gods will punish one. Creon knew this, but regardless he decided not to have Polynices buried. Though a part of the population was still very traditional, more and more people started to raise questions about religious practices, the cosmos and nature, morality and the laws of civilization.
Since it might have been disturbing to stage such tensions in an Athenian setting, tragedy tended to locate its stories in Thebes, an ancient enemy of Athens, which served as a safe space to explore cultural and ideological fault lines. The Antigone does not offer any final answer to what is right and what is wrong, encouraging the audience to continue this debate once the play is over.
This is especially the case for Antigone. They act as the voices of normality, but they can also be rather obtuse. The audience, as a result, is continuously moved to question where its sympathies lie and what constitutes an appropriate reaction to the unfolding tragedy.
The Antigone is a compact play, both thematically and temporally: the majority of the action occurs within a few hours. Sophocles proves himself a master of lyric storytelling: the furious confrontations between characters are rendered in stichomythia alternating verses , while in the kommoi lyrical songs of lament the characters can fully explore their emotional turmoil.
The messenger-speeches, in turn, provide the narrative climax. The six choral odes in the Antigone are counted among the richest and most beautiful of Greek lyric poetry. They are also surprisingly ambiguous, not necessarily relating to the tragic events in the rest of the play and can therefore provide an endless source of interpretation.
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