Following is Antigone's biography as reconstructed from "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.):
1. Theban Princess Antigone is born and educated in the Theban royal palace.
2. Antigone is familiar with the area between Thebes and Athens during the years in which she accompanies her father, disgraced Theban King Oedipus, in exile.
3. Antigone moves back to Thebes after her father's death and becomes engaged to Prince Haemon, only surviving child of King Creon.
4. Antigone violates Creon's law of non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead, is sentenced to death and hangs herself shortly after being buried alive.
antigones father
Antigone's father/brother is Oedipus. (Oedipus marries his mother, Jocasta and Antigone is their child.)
Ismene doesn't wasnt her sister, Antigone, to bury POlyneices because she fears for her sister's life. Creon proclaimed that whomever might bury Polyneices would be publically stoned to death.
Admiration, love and loyalty are Haemon's feelings about Antigone in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Prince Haemon praises Antigone, his first cousin and bride-to-be, for respecting divine law and protecting the rights of the Theban dead. He persists in his love for her and in his desire to not break the engagement and to be married to her. He defends Antigones rights to holding her own opinions and to following her own course of action.
Foreshadowing
In the excerpt from Antigone, the line that reflects her helplessness is when she acknowledges her family's tragic history and the inevitability of their fate. She expresses a sense of being trapped by the weight of her family's curse and her own predetermined role in their tragic narrative. This realization underscores her lack of control over her destiny and the tragic legacy that haunts her choices.
That it is a lie is the reason why Antigone refuses to permit Ismene to share responsibility for burying Polyneices in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigones asks her sister Ismene to help give their brother Polyneices' body a proper below-ground burial. Ismene refuses out of fear of the death penalty for breaking one of their uncle King Creon's laws. Antigone seeks capture for giving Polyneices a partial burial under a layer of dust because the royal law contradicts divine will and Theban traditions. She wants to make a statement in suffering the consequences and not to have anything to do with a sister whom she considers base.
After Antigone's death, Haemon, her fiancé and the son of King Creon, is devastated and confronts his father about the consequences of his actions. Overcome with grief and despair, he ultimately takes his own life beside Antigone's body. His tragic end underscores the themes of love, loyalty, and the devastating impact of rigid authority within the play. Haemon's death further deepens Creon's sense of loss and regret, highlighting the tragic fallout of his decisions.
It's it a reconstructed Missisipian Village
If Antigone disobeys Creon's Law in "Antigone," Antigone is to be sentenced to death.
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