Antigone likens her death sentence to that of Danae. Danae was the daughter of King Acrisius and Queen Eurydice of Argos. The king was warned that death would come to him by way of his own son. The king therefore had his daughter Danae imprisoned in a remote cave or bronze tower. But Zeus, the king of the gods, managed to get into Danae's bedroom by assuming the form of a golden rain. The resulting interaction led to the birth of the hero Perseus. When King Acrisius learned of the successful delivery of a male child, he had mother and son locked inside a wooden chest. The chest was put into the ocean. But Zeus didn't want the mother of his child, or the child, to be hurt or die. And so he convinced the sea god, Poseidon, to calm the waters and let the chest drift to safety.
Because he considers her presence polluting Creon chooses to bury Antigone alive in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Princess Antigone breaks a recently issued Theban law for which the penalty is death by her fellow Thebans pelting her with stones. But King Creon considers his niece a troublemaker whose presence pollutes the Theban environment. He therefore revises the sentence to death by being walled up in a dark, remote, scary cave.
That Antigone is likened to a mother and to a wife are examples of dramatic irony in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the sentry compares Theban Princess Antigone to a mother bird who finds her babies stolen from the nest. Antigone helps her brother, not her non-existent children, and has no children of her own. Despite her lack of a husband or children, she then is compared to a bride when she in fact is processing to her death by live burial and starvation.
No, Antigone and Ismene are not both afraid to bury their brother in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone does not fear death. She therefore does not fear risking the death sentence by breaking the law and burying her disgraced brother Polyneices. But her courage is not echoed by her sister, Princess Ismene, who fears being found out and punished to death.
If Antigone disobeys Creon's Law in "Antigone," Antigone is to be sentenced to death.
Antigone says, "I belong to death," and "Is death not less than a friend"
Because he considers her presence polluting Creon chooses to bury Antigone alive in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Princess Antigone breaks a recently issued Theban law for which the penalty is death by her fellow Thebans pelting her with stones. But King Creon considers his niece a troublemaker whose presence pollutes the Theban environment. He therefore revises the sentence to death by being walled up in a dark, remote, scary cave.
That Antigone is likened to a mother and to a wife are examples of dramatic irony in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the sentry compares Theban Princess Antigone to a mother bird who finds her babies stolen from the nest. Antigone helps her brother, not her non-existent children, and has no children of her own. Despite her lack of a husband or children, she then is compared to a bride when she in fact is processing to her death by live burial and starvation.
If Antigone disobeys Creon's Law in "Antigone," Antigone is to be sentenced to death.
No, Antigone and Ismene are not both afraid to bury their brother in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone does not fear death. She therefore does not fear risking the death sentence by breaking the law and burying her disgraced brother Polyneices. But her courage is not echoed by her sister, Princess Ismene, who fears being found out and punished to death.
Antigone says, "I belong to death," and "Is death not less than a friend"
A remote cave outside Thebes is the place where Antigone dies in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone receives the death sentence for breaking a recently issued royal edict. She is supposed to die outside the main entrance to the Theban royal palace. But her uncle, King Creon, changes the penalty from death by being pelted by stone-throwing Thebans to by being buried alive.
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.
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By being pelted to death by stone-throwing Thebans is the way in which Antigone is supposed to die in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone breaks a royal edict that carries the death penalty. She knows about the law, its proscribed behavior and its punitive measures. Neither stops her, and at her trial she assumes responsibility for her acts and accepts the painful punishment.
The word 'Koryphaios' is Greek for 'leader of the chorus'.The leader had neither the authority nor the power to let Antigone go. That decision was Creon's as King of Thebes. Antigone was sentenced to death. The original punishment was being assailed by stones until dead. But King Creon changed the punishment to a slow, lonely death by being walled up in a remote cave. Once in the cave, Antigone killed herself.
Creon. He ordered her death, but Antigone refused to be buried alive, and therefore killed herself by hanging.
Haemon's own statement of one death leading into anotherforeshadows his death in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Prince Haemon attempts to talk his father, King Creon, out of sentencing Princess Antigone to death. Haemon loves Antigone, who is his first cousin and bride-to-be. He realizes that his father will not back down. So he says that Antigone's death will not go unaccompanied.