The play 'Antigone' opens with Antigone planning to commit an act that her uncle, Theban King Creon, forbids. The act is the proper burial procedure for the body of her brother Polyneices, who is among the disloyal Theban dead. The King forbids the burial, which directly contradicts god-given justice, morality, rites, rituals and traditions. The King's decision is prompted by his carrying over into death the hatreds of a lifetime. For the King indicates that once an enemy, always an enemy. To his way of thinking, obedience is the supreme good, and disobedience the ultimate evil. He therefore doesn't believe that dead enemies deserve the same treatment as the loyal dead.
Creon banishes Medea because he has arranged a marriage between Medea's husband Jason and his daughter. Creon originally allowed Medea to stay in Corinth but her anger and thirst for revenge caused him to banish her.
Because he is afraid of what MEDEA may or may not do to his daughter and himself. He says that she is a frightening woman, and the nurse states that those who make an enemy of her will not take an easy victory. Creon is afraid of Medea because of her smarts, she is a smart, cunning, woman who is driven by jealousy and the desire for revenge.
So creon wants her and her sons out of Corinth to save himself and his daughter. HOWEVER, it was this action (him telling her to leave) that instigated her actions, prior to this she was consumed with hatred for jason and was not going to harm the royal family in any way, however once Creon told her to leave and be exilled this is what fueled her anger for him and her daughter:D
A) Because he is stubborn, and has his hubris prevent him from accepting Antigone's way of thinking.
B) Because to give a proper burial to Polyneices would be to give him honor, something which Creon did not want happening, because that would probably make him look like a weak king, setting a bad precedent to his subjects.
C) A bad precedent because it would send the message that "yes, there IS honor in invading Thebes and trying to overthrow the king". Leaving Polyneices body to rot gives quite the opposite message.
Through his own guilty part in an injustice Theban King Creon wants to punish his nephew Polyneices. Polyneices and Eteocles are the heirs apparent to their father, Theban King Oedipus. With their father's disgrace and exile, the twin brothers inherit the throne of Thebes. They agree to a joint power sharing arrangement. By that co-rule, Eteocles is to occupy the throne for a year, then Polyneices, then Eteocles, etc.
But at the end of the year, Eteocles reneges on the deal. He refuses to give up the throne and even exiles Polyneices. Creon backs Eteocles in the unjust, illegal action.
Polyneices subsequently returns to claim his god given rights by force. In the ensuing battle, he and Eteocles kill each other. Creon decides that it's a last defining act of treachery, no matter how motivated by justice, that defines death and the disposition of the corpse. So he allows Eteocles' burial and funeral services to comply with divine law and Theban cultural traditions. But he denies the same god given and Theban rights to Polyneices. He argues that a traitor dies a traitor's death and gets a traitor's non burial.
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Creon wanted Antigone killed because she chose to defy his order of not buyring her dead brother.
That he is in the wrong is the reason that Antigone gives Creon for disobeying his orders in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone breaks a royal edict issued by her uncle, King Creon. The edict conflicts with divine law and Theban tradition. Antigone explains that she breaks Creon's law because he is in the wrong and that she observes divine law because the gods rule.
How is Creon in conflict with Antigone
Breaking the law and bragging about it is Antigone's double insolence in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon interrogates Princess Antigone about the forbidden burial of her brother Polyneices. He is offended by Antigone's responses. He objects not only to her misdeed but also to her shameless confession of wrongdoing.
Creon is Antigone's uncle.
If Antigone disobeys Creon's Law in "Antigone," Antigone is to be sentenced to death.
That he is in the wrong is the reason that Antigone gives Creon for disobeying his orders in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone breaks a royal edict issued by her uncle, King Creon. The edict conflicts with divine law and Theban tradition. Antigone explains that she breaks Creon's law because he is in the wrong and that she observes divine law because the gods rule.
How is Creon in conflict with Antigone
Breaking the law and bragging about it is Antigone's double insolence in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon interrogates Princess Antigone about the forbidden burial of her brother Polyneices. He is offended by Antigone's responses. He objects not only to her misdeed but also to her shameless confession of wrongdoing.
Creon is Antigone's uncle.
If Antigone disobeys Creon's Law in "Antigone," Antigone is to be sentenced to death.
Creon is his dad and antigone is his cousin
Haemon is Antigone's betrothed, and loves her. In spite of his father Creon's contempt and opposition of Antigone, he supports her decision to bury her brother Polyneices and is aware of the situation in Thebes: the citizens also support Antigone's decision, although they are too terrified to betray their emotions to King Creon. He even attempts to defend Antigone to Creon, but is ignored. In the end, Haemon's love for Antigone is what causes him to commit suicide after finding her dead body.
Creon's wife's name in Antigone is Eurydice.
It is during his interrogation that Creon asks Antigone if she is ashamed to argue in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon interrogates his niece, Princess Antigone, over the burial of her brother Polyneices. He is taken aback by the way in which she boasts about breaking a law that carries the death penalty. He wonders why she has no shame about a misdeed that no one else in Thebes would commit.
Creon is to blame for everyone's suicides. Creon places Antigone and Haemon in a situation where they only way they saw to get out of was to commit suicide. When Eurydice found out that Haemon had committed suicide due to Creon she went to her room, where she cursed Creon before taking her own life. If Creon had not be so stubborn and not placed Antigone in the cave no one would have died. But it is a greek tragedy, so the ending must of course be tragic. :]
Niece to uncle is Antigone's relationship to Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is the eldest daughter of disgraced Theban monarchs Oedipus and Jocasta. Queen Jocasta is Creon's sister. Antigone therefore is Creon's niece.
Antigone is,