When someone is dead we now know there is nothing else anyone or anything can do for them at that point. ... Creon states that the gods would be unhappy if a traitor to their country and land were to be buried. Someone that was a traitor to the Gods land would not be admired and even the gods would agree that the person should be punished. ... Kings were just human beings regardless of what they thought they were and they too made mistakes on judgment calls but still the people have to obey, respect, and stand by their kings because they are the almighty lawgivers of the land whether the peopl...

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In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. ... We had a leader, once, over this land, Called Laius- The man is dead; and now we are clearly bidden to bring to account certain his murders." (pg 4) Oedipus proceeds to chastise the citizens of the land for letting this crime go so long without investigating it. ...

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Antigone's ultimate fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and show loyalty what is most important to her, her family. ... Creon believes that the actions that the actions he had taken were in fact the right ones, because he believed that Polyneices was a traitor to the land, and anyone who would give him a proper burial would suffer the penalty of death. ... "She felt her personal responsibility lies to the gods and her family rather than to the king"(Harding 304).Antigone disregards the justice that governs the land and also presides over the set laws that make civilized life ...

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Within moments the results are relayed by a messenger, "Medea, you who have done such a dreadful thing, so outrageous, run for your life, take what you can, a ship to bear you hence or chariot on land" (Euripides 665). The messenger then bears the news that the princess, as well as her father, is dead. ... When Oedipus refuses to stop his search for the truth, Jocasta runs into the palace and is later found dead by apparent suicide. ...

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