Polyneices is Antigone's brother. ... She tries to talk her sister out of burying her brother because of what could happen to her if Creon found out that she went against him. ... Antigone does not want to let her brother be left without a proper burial. ... My husband dead, I might have found another; Another son from him if I had lost A son. ... To Antigone this is another reason to honor her brother; as she honors her brother she is honoring her mother and father as well. ...

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It is the story of young Antigone, daughter of the late King Oedipus, who is devoted to her brother Polynices. ... This brotherly struggle was the clever plan devised by King Creon. ... Creon attempted to convince her to stop trying to bury her brother. ... The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for dictatorship so convincing. ... Least Rewarding Facet: After having read Antigone by Sophocles before I read this version, I found myself partial to the original version - for I had known everything about it. ...

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The newly found king of Thebes publicly declares that Antigone's fallen brother is not to be buried, but is to be left to rot and be eaten by birds. ... Antigone had two brothers that had fought on opposite sides during a war to control Thebes. Both of her brothers had died on the battlefield. ... She loved her brother and buried him against Creon's wishes. ... When Medea heard of Jason's newly found bride, she spoke of murdering her and Jason because she was so hurt. ...

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Both brothers were killed leaving their uncle Kreon as the new king of Thebes. ... Antigone moved by love for her brother and convinced of the injustice of the command buried Polyneices secretly. ... Obeying all of her instincts of love, loyalty and humanity, Antigone defies Kreon and dutifully buries her brother's corpse. ... Ismeme, who admiringly loves her brother is afraid to help Antigone in fear of their uncle Kreon, the new king of Thebes. ... I found this play to be extremely emotional, and very condemn. ...

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All Antigone wants to do is give her brother, Polynices, a proper burial. ... Yet, Antigone loves her brother dearly and did indeed bury him. ... When Creon found out Antigone had buried Polynices, he sentenced her to death. ... His pride would not let him see reason, that all Antigone wants is a burial for her beloved brother. ...

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Hale first found the bird: Mrs. ... Looking at Antigone the symbolism is not as readily apparent as that found in Trifles. ... She refused to help Antigone bury her own brother. ... He's my brother - deny it as you will - he's your brother too. ... He's my brother. ...

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Polyneceis and Eteoles were brothers along with Antigone and Ismene. ... "He is my brother still, and yours: though you would have it otherwise but I shall not abandon him," Antigone told Ismene. ... Eteocles and Polyneceis were sons of Oedipus, and Creon was Oedipus's brother in law. ... When Creon found out Antigone buried Polyneceis she was going to be killed. ... Creon reacted unexpectedly once he found out Haemon was dead. ...

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There are several points in the play that Antigone seems very heroic, especially when she is speaking to Creon about her reasoning for attempting to bury her brother. ... After Creon tells her the story about her brother's bodies, she takes the stance that she must bury her brother for herself. ... From the beginning of the play when she sneaks out to bury her brother after Creon had specifically told her not to, all the way to the end when she is given the opportunity to marry Haemon and go on living but forces her own death. ... When she is first found out and Creon confronts her, she p...

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She plans to bury her brother's body. Polynices is her blood, her brother and her family. ... She loves her brother dearly, and wants him to receive a proper burial. ... Antigone has been caught burying her brother's body. ... Eurydice, the wife of Creon, found her sons dead body. ...

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Antigone's fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and be loyal her family. ... Her love for her brother was so great that she sacrificed her life for the respect that his deserved. Haemon's love for Antigone had made him kill himself when he found her dead body. Creon's wife's love for Haemon had made her kill herself when she found out Haemon had killed himself. ...

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Antigone's fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and be loyal her family. ... Her love for her brother was so great that she sacrificed her life for the respect that his deserved. Haemon's love for Antigone had made him kill himself when he found her dead body. Creon's wife's love for Haemon had made her kill herself when she found out Haemon had killed himself. ...

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Fate is why Oedipus winds up killing his own father and eventually ended up marrying his own mother and then later on he found out about all of this. ... The fate of the two brothers winds up ultimately killing both of them on opposite sides during the war. ... Antigone was a very religious person and the acceptance of her brother by the gods was very important to her. ... Antigone shows her loyalty to her beliefs to give her brother a proper burial even if it is going to cost her own life. ... She stood up to the highest of powers so she could honor her brother, knowing the consequence could ...

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The point she wanted to accomplish is that her brother Polyneices deserves a propel burial beneath the earth than to be left out to rot and be eaten by birds and other earthly creatures. ... It should be a beautiful morning of victory but instead the soldiers "Found shock of death in the dusty joy of battle" (Strophe 2.32). The two deaths the chorus tells are the deaths of Eteocles and his brother Polyneices. These two brothers killed each other the chorus explains, and the soldiers are in awe. ...

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This same perspective is found in Sophocles" play Antigone where Antigone, the protagonist, goes against the State due to the moral obligation she has by the Gods to her family. ... She was morally bound by the gods to bury her brother so that he could reach heaven. ... She was willing to give her life to uphold the cause, which was to bury her brother (part of her kin). ... One perspective deals with that of viewing Polynices as a traitor, and the other deals with viewing him as a brother a part of kin. ... After scrutinizing over the plays Apology, by Plato, and Antigone, by Sophocles, it wa...

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Once more, Oedipus goes into a rage and claims that Tiresias is a phony and that his own brother-in-law, Creon, has something to do with Laius' murder. ... Obviously, Oedipus lets his pride get in the way Also, with his brother-in-law, Creon, does Oedipus commits the sin of hubris. ... Oedipus says, "You are quick to talk, but I am slow to learn of you; for I have found you contrary and dangerous to me." ...

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In the beginning of the play, Oedipus's brother-in-law Creon was sent to visit the Gods. ... When he found out what he had done, he said, "Me miserable! ... Oedipus blamed the people whom he once thought to be his parents for what happened to him, saying, "O Polybus, And Corinth, and the old paternal roof I once called mine, with what thin film of honour, Corruption over-skinned, you fostered me, Found ill myself, and from ill parents, now (pg. 75)!" ...

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The main conflict in the play is Antigone's desire to give her late brother a proper burial, even though Creon will not allow it. ... In the end she dies a martyr to protect the burial right that were stripped from her brother by Creon. ... This is another attempt by Sophocles to make the audience believe that Creon and his ideals are offensive and unjust, while showing Antigone to be righteous and just in her statement to Creon about her deceased brother "All the same, these rites are due to the underworld" (20). ... With respect to the audience's prior knowledge, Sophocles plays o...

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In Antigone, Ismene hopes that she can keep her sister from giving their brother a proper burial. ... The jury found Socrates guilty of the charges and sentenced him to death. ... Their brothers were killed in the battle against Thebes. ... When Antigone hears of her brother not being buried she decides that she will take it upon herself to give him a burial. ... In response to this Antigone's states, "Yes, bury my own brother-and yours too- if you"re not willing. ...

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Antigone is faced with the death of both brothers, one who is to be buried with full military rites, while the other, under dictate of the king, is to be cast aside and allowed to rot in the sun. She places family before the law, and ventures out to give her brother a proper burial. ... His rage over Nora's crime subsides the moment the danger of publicity is averted, proving that he, like many moralist is not so much incensed at Nora's offense as by the fear of being found out. However, to be found out is Nora's salvation. ...

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Verbal irony is found within the conversation between Oedipus and Teiresias. ... The dramatic irony is found mainly in the beginning of the play, before Oedipus unravels the dark secrets of his life. ... Irony of situation is found through out the whole play. ... He is the father and brother of his children. ... It is also ironic that within almost the entire play Oedipus stands beside the answers he seeks, like when Teiresias hinted to him in lines 440-445 that the murderer killed his father, married his mother, and is brother to his children. ...

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Moreover, that he was found by a wandering shepherd who took him to the nearby city of Corinth where he was adopted by the childless King Polybos and Queen Merope who raised him as a son and prince in the royal household. ... Consequently, he sends Creon, his brother-in-law, to Delphi to consult the oracles and find out the identity of the murderer. ...

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Usually it is found that most Greek heroes do not die at the end. ... Very often in Greek Literature it is found that one of the heroes in the piece have committed some type of taboo at one time or the other. ... She made her personal problems with the burials of her brothers everyone's problems. ...

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Antigone's death was already foreshadowing the moment she decided to break the law and bury her brother. ... As Antigone has her final speech before she goes, she looks on the positive side for her own moral support, "But still I go, cherishing one good hope: my arrival may be to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (105). ... And you will never see me, never set eyes on my face again,"" (99) declares Haemon once he found out about Antigone's consequence. ...

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Creon Creon is the brother to locasta, Captain-general of the army, and successor to the throne. ... When he found out Antigone's sentence, he tries to change his father's mind. ... Falling Action "When Eurydice found out about her son's death she ran off. She was found by the altar with a knife in her. ... In the story Antigone buries her brother. ...

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"After a painful search I found one cure: I acted at once. I sent Creon, my wife's own brother, to Delphi- Apollo the Prophet's oracle- to learn what I might do or say to save our city" (Sophocles 601). ... Tiresias foresees the tragedy that is to be revealed and although hesitant in bringing the truth forward, he eventually reveals that the murderer is a native Theban who is son and husband to his wife, as well as brother and father to his own children, and the murderer of his own father. ... It comes to light that Oedipus was not the son of the king of Corinth but had been found w...

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