Antigone Review
The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. It started off with her brother, Polyneices trying to invade the city-state of Thebes with his Argive army. Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes because of an edict. But now he his back to reclaim his throne, which is presently occupied by his brother Eteocles. The two brothers and their armies engage in battle and killed each other. With the last of the male in the royal family dead, Creon their uncle is next in line to become king. As his first act as king of Thebes, he issues an edict. The edict forbids anybody to bury the body of Polyneices, which is lying in the earth being eaten by birds and dogs. As the citizen of Thebes knew this edict a sentry reports that the edict has already been violated. With his fierceness Creon told the sentry that either he expose the criminal or he is to be kill. The very next day, the sentry returns to Creon with the Princess Antigone. A baffle Creon demands to know why was the Princess Antigone brought before him. The sentry told Creon that she was the one that disobey the edict. The sentry explains that he saw Antigone last night crying, pori
The video was followed just like the book and for that fact I really liked the video even if some of the sub titles were hard to read. It was excellently written and kept my attention throughout. Haimon, Creon's son, seek to change his father's mind base on reason. Because Antigone was going to be Haimon's wife. But his father tells Haimon that he is too young to make these decisions. Haimon tell his father that it does not matter if he is young, what matter is that he is right. Haimon also reports to his father that the citizen of Thebes believes what Antigone is doing is right, but they are afraid to speak their minds. Then Creon accused his son of selling out to a woman. As Creon sees that his son would rather be on the side of Antigone then obeying his own father, Creon got enrage and declare that Antigone will die in front of Haimon's eyes. Once Haimon heard that he left the palace with a warning to Creon. "If she die then her death will cause another". Back in the palace a messenger inform the queen, Eurydice of what has happened. And as she makes her way in the palace she blames Creon for the death of both of her sons, Haimon and Megareus, who was killed in the battle of Polyneices and Eteocles. When Creon return from the tomb carrying the lifeless body of Haimon a servant reports that Eurydice id killed by her own hands. A totally broken Creon slow
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Approximate Word count = 923
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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