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In the story 'Antigone', the sentinel has a definite purpose in seeking his first audience with Theban King Creon. He wants to inform the King of evidence of proper funerary procedures having been carried out over the dead body of Polyneices, one of the disloyal Theban dead. Such procedures are in accordance with divine justice, morality, rites, rituals and traditions. But they are in direct contradiction of the King's manmade law on the non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead. It's somewhat difficult to ascertain the sentinel's character. For he makes so few appearances in the play 'Antigone'. And he operates under the constraint of being a guard who doesn't have much culture or education, and whose livelihood depends upon carrying out the King's orders, be they wise or insensitive or foolish. Understandabaly, he and the other guards fight over which one is going to tell the King of the violation of the law. Not one of the guards wants to be blamed for the crime, charged with not doing their jobs, or found in the dangerous position of the bearer of bad news.

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