her uncle ordered that she must be killed
Her uncle, Creon, king of Thebes, order her to be killed. She was to be killed by being trapped in a a stone chamber with no food and starve to death.
Antigone will be put to death .
In wanting to bury Polyneices? She wants to have a clean conscience for the afterlife. If she does the right this and buries her brother, she will have a good afterlife.
love for her family
they catch her burying her brother Polyneices.
It is the sentry that catches Antigone burying her brother and brings her in front of Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon issues an edict of non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead. He has sentries posted to make sure that the exposed bodies remain unburied. His niece Princess Antigone is caught burying and anointing her brother Polyneices in direct disobedience of the edict, for which the punishment is death.
antigones father
Antigone's father/brother is Oedipus. (Oedipus marries his mother, Jocasta and Antigone is their child.)
Antigone
In wanting to bury Polyneices? She wants to have a clean conscience for the afterlife. If she does the right this and buries her brother, she will have a good afterlife.
She doesn't want to be condemned to death by Creon by burying her dead brother.
love for her family
they catch her burying her brother Polyneices.
The guards and sentries who witness the act.
Antigone
It is the sentry that catches Antigone burying her brother and brings her in front of Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon issues an edict of non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead. He has sentries posted to make sure that the exposed bodies remain unburied. His niece Princess Antigone is caught burying and anointing her brother Polyneices in direct disobedience of the edict, for which the punishment is death.
Foreshadowing
antigones father
The guard returns to tell the king after she is found burying her brother.