If they only knew
When two people have an uncompromisible difference in opinion they are forced to become enemies. Sophocles illustrates this in the tragedy Antigone through the main characters, Antigone and Creon. Antigone, King Oedipus's daughter, has come back to Thebes after king Creon has put her two brothers Polyneices and Etocles to death. After being killed only one brother is given a proper burial, the other one, Polynecius, is left out to be "chewed up by birds and dogs (page 168 line 225)." Creon is adamant about not allowing Polyneices, a traitor to Thebes to have burial rights. He warns that acts against his decision will pay a price. Since Antigone believes Creon is making a decision that belongs to the gods, she buries Polynecius herself. Their actions past and present have been the building blocks for their relationship. Since Creon hates women and Antigone does not fear Creon, like others, and because Antigone buried Polynecius, Antigone and Creon are enemies.Antigone, a woman, ignored Creon's authority knowing the repercussions that she would face, and buried Polynecies. Throughout the story Creon shows a disliking for women. "So we must stand on the side of what is orderly; we cannot g
Creon believes that Polynesius has offended Thebes and deserves no burial at all. "I here proclaim to the city that this man shall no one honor with a grave and none shall mourn. You shall leave him without burial; you shall watch him chewed up by the birds and dogs and violated". Antigone on the other hand, has heard how Antigone feels about Polynecius but does not let it push her off her path. She is going to give her brother what she feels he deserves, no matter what the presumable consequences may be. "I myself will bury him. It will be good to die, so doing. I shall lie by his side, loving him as he loved me; I shall be a criminal-but a religious one. Antigone believes that the gods are the only ones that should decide the fate of the dead.
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Approximate Word count = 1013
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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