Antigone

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.

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.

Loyalty to the government

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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?

Why does Creon share Oedipus's power?

Menoeceus is Antigone's maternal grandfather. Theban King Laius and Theban Queen Jocasta are Antigone's paternal grandparents. Jocasta is both grandmother and mother by way of her second, albeit unknowing marriage with her own son, subsequent Theban King Oedipus. So Oedipus is not only Antigone's father but also her half brother.

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.

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 sister of Antigone is Ismene.

Creon thinks the Sentry has buried the body of Polynices.