When King Oedipus learned that he lived his life under a curse, unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother, he poked out his own eyes and dissappeared into exile. After Oedipus' abandonment, toghether his sons Eteocles and Polyneices ruled Thebes. The two brothers eventually came to conflict, Eteocles banished his brother, and Ployneices attacked the city with an army outside of Thebes. During the battle the sons of Oedipus slew each other leaving the throne to Creon, who is next in blood. Creon has announced that Eteocles is to be buried with military honors. As for Polyneices he will recieve no such burial but instead will be left unburied. Antigone, one of the daughter's of Oedipus and sister of Eteocles and Polyneices, decides she is going

Antigone, on the other hand, is determined to bury her brother. She feels that he fouth just as bravely and died just as miserably as Eteocles did, therefore should be buried as a man not as an animal left for the birds to pick on his dead body. She is also afraid that leaving his corpse unburied could possibly offend Zeus, which would bring to Thebes plague, curse, and aridness. Antigone feels that it will also prevent his heroic soul from entering the Elysian Fields, the residence of those favored by the gods. She is willing to risk her own life, replying that if it is a crime, it is a holy crime she is inclined to commit for his honor.

to bury her brother against the king's wishes even though she is risking her life to do so.

King Creon's decision not to properly bury Polyneices is because he feel

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