Antigone

To prevent the playing out of a horrendous fate is the reason why the parents of subsequent King Oedipus order him to be left exposed in the mountains. King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes thereby hope to stop their three day old son from growing up to kill his father and his sovereign. That's the prophecy that they're given as to the fate of their son. It's far worse to kill a father than to kill a child, in ancient Greece.

Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between King Oedipus of Thebes and his mother Jocasta.

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Yes, Antigone is a good tragic hero. She has the quality of bravery in burying the body of her brother Polyneices against the manmade law of her uncle, Theban King Creon. In so doing, she shows that she acknowledges some moral authority higher than an earthly power such as a monarch. This makes her good. She also suffers for her convictions. She is arrested, receives a death sentence, and commits suicide. This makes her tragic.

The Oedipus complex is the attraction to your parent of the opposite sex and the hatred of your parent of the same sex.

Oedipus Rex killed his father and married his mother. (In his defense, he didn't know they were his parents.)

underworld

Yes, Theban Queen Jocasta is married to Theban King Oedipus. It's her second marriage. Her first marriage ends with the death of her husband, Theban King Laius. She seems to be happy in her second marriage. But the couple's happiness ultimately is shattered with the revelation that wife and husband are also mother and son.

In the play 'Antigone' some of the gods specifically are mentioned by name. For example, reference is made to Aphrodite, Bacchus, Pallas, Persephone, Pluto, and Zeus. Other gods generally are mentioned by attribute. For example, the fire and war gods are mentioned by the particular quality for which they're consulted and worshipped.

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Death Wish

There was a famine, and Oedipus went to an oracle who said that the only way it would be over was if he found out who killed Laius.

Theban King Creon is sent by his brother-in-law and nephew, Theban King Oedipus, to find out what can be done to solve the plague problem. He's sent to consult with the Oracle at Apollo's Shrine. The Oracle says that the plague only will end with the identification and punishment of the killer or killers of Theban King Laius.

He is son to Creon and Eurydice and brother to Haemon. He does not appear in Antigone because he died during the struggle between Polynices and Eteocles.

Sinon, a son of Aesimus, was a Greek warrior during the Trojan War. He pretended he had deserted the Greeks and, as a Trojan captive, told the Trojans that the wooden horse the Greeks had left was intended as a gift to the gods to ensue their safe voyage home. He told them that the horse was made so big that the Trojans would not be able to move it into their city, because if they did they would be invincible to later Greek invasion. His story convinced the Trojans. The Trojans brought the Trojan Horse into their city. Inside the horse were Greek soldiers, who, as night fell, disembarked from the horse and opened the gates of Troy, thus sealing the fate of Troy. (From Wikipedia) a

Thebes is where Antigone lives. It's her hometown. But before the action of the play 'Antigone', she leaves Thebes with her disgraced father, Theban King Oedipus. They travel around in humiliating, miserable exile until they reach Colonus. That's where Oedipus dies. That's when Antigone comes back home.

Theban King Creon mentions only the chief god Zeus by name in 'Antigone'. Otherwise, his references are indirect in terms of Thebes' gods. For example, he speaks of Hades in terms of the underworld location of a mortal's afterlife. But nowhere does he mention the underworld god or the members of the underworld divine family by name.

* Oedipus is the character - Oedipus Rex is the name of the play * Dynamic, because he experiences personal change. In fact he experiences one of the most dramatic life-changing crisis of all of literature.

He is not really gilty, because he didnt know that he killed his mother and married his father. But it doesnt really metter knew he it or now, he killed his birth father, and it is a shame.

For my opinion as i said i dont think he is guilty, but honest, he cut his eyes off, because he killed his father. I think he is a nice guy in the greek mythology.

Smooth sailing through life as a rare human experience is the general lesson that the chorus draws from the example of Theban King Oedipus' life. The chorus indicates that a pain free existence isn't something that the gods promise mortals. So the mortal who dies without any painful memories is few and far between in earthly life.

Traditionally: Creon for not allowing a proper burial and Antigone for not obeying the king and being rebellious.

Although you can feel free to give your own interpretation.

Answer #1 Antigone wants to bury her brother who was just killed in a battle against her other brother over the throne of Thebes. Answer #2 Antigone wants to make sure that her brother Polyneices is honored with proper burial rites and rituals. Polyneices is being denied both the rites and the burial. Their uncle, Theban King Creon, wants the Theban dead who were disloyal to their hometown in a recent battle to be left, above ground and exposed to the weather, the dogs, and the birds. Antigone doesn't want to disrespect her brother's memory or his corpse.

suspense, imagery and conflicts (self v. self, self v. gods, self v. fate, and self v. family)

The Sphinx was holding Thebes captive until someone answered it's riddle. Desperate for relief, Creon offers whoever can answer the riddle the hand of his sister Jocasta, recently widowed. Oedipus comes along and solves the riddle, earning himself the throne.