Antigone looks forward to death. She accepts that she will spend more time in the underworld realms of the dead than in the above-ground life of the living. She knows that many loved ones such as her parents and her brothers await her there. She respects the god-given traditions by which Thebans organize their lives and make ready for their deaths. Those traditions emphasize the importance of honoring dead Thebans with proper burial rites and rituals. She trusts in the afterlife, underground reception that she will find for having honored the beloved dead and the god-given customs.
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"
Creon. He ordered her death, but Antigone refused to be buried alive, and therefore killed herself by hanging.
That everyone except Creon and the chorus oppose it is the conclusion about sentencing Antigone to death in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon issues an edict that his niece, Princess Antigone, disobeys. The civil disobedience makes Antigone eligible for the mandatory death sentence. But just about everyone - her aunt Eurydice, her betrothed Haemon, her sister Ismene and Teiresias the blind prophet - oppose Antigone's death. Creon and the chorus basically stand alone in believing that her deed may be correct but that her uncontrolled passionate outbursts earn Antigone her death.
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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"
Creon. He ordered her death, but Antigone refused to be buried alive, and therefore killed herself by hanging.
That everyone except Creon and the chorus oppose it is the conclusion about sentencing Antigone to death in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon issues an edict that his niece, Princess Antigone, disobeys. The civil disobedience makes Antigone eligible for the mandatory death sentence. But just about everyone - her aunt Eurydice, her betrothed Haemon, her sister Ismene and Teiresias the blind prophet - oppose Antigone's death. Creon and the chorus basically stand alone in believing that her deed may be correct but that her uncontrolled passionate outbursts earn Antigone her death.
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.
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his punishment for her is for her to be stoned to death.
Creon blames himself for Antigone's death. He also blames himself for his wife Eurydice death and his son Haemon's death as well .
No, Creon does not announce his decision to kill himself after Haemon's death in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon is devastated by the suicide of Prince Haemon, his only surviving child and heir apparent. He looks forward to death. But he makes no actual mention of taking his life.
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Devotion to the gods is what Antigone says is the cause of her death in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone believes in respecting divinely expressed will. She considers the gods as the ultimate authority in life and death. She defends their dominant role when she breaks a royal edict in order to comply with divinely ordained Theban traditions. The gods may be all powerful, but they do not keep King Creon, their earthly representative and Antigone's uncle, from sentencing her to death.
Satisfaction with a job well done tinged with vague regret is what Antigone feels in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is comfortable with her choice of family ties over civic duty and of divine respect over royal deference. She looks forward to her welcome reception in the Underworld of the afterlife. But she regrets that recognizing the gods as the ultimate authorities in life and death stops her life short before marriage and parenting.