For what reason has Creon forbidden the act that Antigone is about to commit?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Creon wanted Antigone killed because she chose to defy his order of not buyring her dead brother.