Antigone

Yes, Antigone killed herself. According to the messenger, she hangs herself by her halter. Her first cousin and fiance Haemon manages to break through the walled up entrance to her cave. But he finds her already dead, and kills himself also.

Some critics feel that the tragic hero of the play 'Antigone' is the main character of the same name. For a hero does great deeds, and has great power and strength. Antigone fits the bill in both regards. For she does the great deed of honoring divine rights and Theban traditions in burying her brother Polyneices. Additionally, she shows great strength in enduring the insults and threats of her uncle, Theban King Creon. Other critics feel that the tragic hero is the King. But the King does no great deed. Ultimately, he reverses his own law, which contradicts the perceived god-given rights by which Thebans live their lives and prepare for death. But he only does so out of fear for direly predicted consequences otherwise on his rule and his family.

The guards tell Creon that someone has tried to properly bury Polyneices by covering him with some dirt.

The special relationship of sovereign to prophet is the relationship between Theban King Creon and Teiresias the blind prophet. In that interaction, Creon gets to have access to the special knowledge and powers of Teiresias. In return, Teiresias needs know how to tell hard truths to his ruler. It's a balancing act since anything that hints of criticism or of misfortune actually may be punishable as treason.

The turning point in Antigone is when Creons son, Haimon, dies. Creon shows remorse and compassion for the first time, but most importantly he takes responsibility for his actions and is able to admit to himself that Haimons death is his fault. Creon is a dynamic character, he changes greatly throughout the play and by the end he is able to accept that his own mortality is enevitable and that family comes before fortune.

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.

From one source it says that a lightning bolt struck him and he disappeared which last time that happened the person went to mount Olympus so you can infer that's where he is

Loyalty to the government

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In 'Antigone', the only defense that Theban King Creon has is the controversial insanity defense. He can't claim the demands of the job and the position description. For he's the author and enforcer of the inhumane, unfair, unjust, unpopular law on the non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead. He can't claim exigent circumstances, because the armed struggle against the Argive invaders ends in resounding victory for Thebes. And he can't claim popular pressure, because most Thebans respect the god-given higher morality of respect for the dead and their funerary rights.

In Antigone (Sophocles) Antigone hangs herself in the final stage of the play, inside the cave. In the Legend of Antigone through Mythology She married Creons Son, and He killed himself and Antigone.

The effects of a pestilence on the Theban population and on their livestock and crops make up the ways in which Thebes is dying in the play 'Oedipus Rex'. The pestilence lowers the birth rate. Couples aren't having children, and those who do are dealing with high infant death rates. The livestock are sickening and dying as well. And finally, the crops are becoming so diseased and damaged that the harvests aren't good. So Thebes faces the death of its people and the end of its food supplies.

The people of Thebes bring wool covered branches from olive trees [Olea europaea] to the altar before the royal palace of Thebes. They hope to bring a swift end to the suffering, starving or dying state that is felling their fellow citizens. Along with their incense and prayers, they thereby seek help from their gods and their sovereign.

Oedipus is not Creon's son. Creon is the brother of Jocasta, who both gave birth to Oedipus and married him. So he is Oedipus' uncle/brother-in-law, but he's not his father. His father is Laios.

Antigone thinks the dead not the living make the longest demands because of the honor and ceremony surrounding them after death. They must be prepare, dress, and buried in the tradition needed to meet their deity in the afterlife.

No, Haemon doesn't rescue his first cousin and fiancee, Antigone, from her tomb. He arrives too late. She already has hanged herself with her own halter. Haemon tries to kill Theban King Creon, his father and Antigone's uncle. When he fails, he turns his sword upon himself. He dies holding onto Antigone.

Antigone tells her to tell everyone she doesn't care.

Here's a good breakdown.

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/antigone/section8.html

In the play 'Antigone', Theban King Creon changes his mind because of the prophecies of Teiresias the blind prophet. The King doesn't want to hear the truths that Teiresias tells him. He becomes insulting and threatening. So Teiresias tells him the woeful consequences of cruelty, pride, and stubbornness. Once he realizes the doom and gloom in store for him and his family, the King quickly changes his mind about crime and punishment. For example, he decides that his non-burial decree for the disloyal Theban dead indeed is wrong. He tries to make things right by having his nephew Polyneices buried and by trying to get his niece Antigone out of the remote, walled up cave to which he sentences her to death.
Because he decided too...

The circle is the shape that describes Antigone. All of the elements in a circle are at the same distance from a given point. The notion of equal distance calls to mind the notion of equal treatment. Antigone most definitely believes in equal treatment for all Thebans. She shows her commitment when she acts on behalf of her dead brother Polyneices. Thebans are guaranteed proper burial rites and rituals just by being Theban, and according to the will of the gods. Her brother Eteocles is given a proper burial. So Antigone sees to it that Polyneices gets his due also. Additionally, a circle has no identifiable beginning or end. Antigone most definitely sees no clear end to life and no clear beginning to death. She instead views life as flowing into death, and the experience of death as affected by the experience of life.

What is the ethical position of a chemical company in spending money lobbying the public and Congress on new laws and enforcement of existing ones?

Himself, Creon is the tragic hero in this play and it is his actions that create his eventual suffering.

Why does Creon share Oedipus's power?

That he's fated to kill his father and marry his motheris the statement that the Delphic Oracle makes to subsequent Theban King Oedipus. The initial reason for Oedipus' visit is a rumor that he isn't the biological son of those whom he considers his parents: King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. But he forgets all upon hearing such a horrendous prophecy. All he can think of is getting as far away from home without finding out whether or not it's really his home. And the irony lies in home being precisely where he runs to instead of away from.

The discovery of Theban King Oedipus' commission of heinous crimes causes his downfall. The entire city of Thebes discovers that Oedipus is the killer of his royal predecessor and father, Theban King Laius. So in one fell swoop, Oedipus commits the heinous crimes of killing his father and his sovereign. He then goes on to marry Laius' grieving widow, Theban Queen Jocasta. In so doing, he commits the third heinous crime of wedding and bedding his own mother. His crimes therefore come down to incest, murder, and treason. In Theban eyes, he therefore becomes a killer, a sex offender, and a traitor.