Creon states: Creon: "I have known governed with a slender curb. It is unseemly that a household drudge Should be misproud ; but she was conversant with outrage, ever since she passed the bounds Laid down by law ; then hard upon that deed Comes this, the second outrage, to exult And Triumph in her deed, Truly if here She wielded such powers uncensured, she is man, I woman! ... Burial in itself is a very womanly task and Creon trying to deny her womanly duties is an example of Creons imaginary dominance over Antigone. ... Creon: But not equal measure. ... Creon: The enemy can never be a frie...

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You are the murderer, you are the unholy defilement of this land." (23) Tiresias says this to Oedipus when he asks him who murdered King Lauis, this answer did not make Oedipus happy, and he was outraged. ... When Oedipus finds out that he is the murderer of King Laius he does not believe that this could be possible, he thinks that it is Creon, his brother in law and unlce, and the profit Tiresias plotting against him to gain the throne. Creon is extremely offended by this accusation and explains to the city: "Fellow citizens of Thebes, I am here in an angry mood. ... If, in the present d...

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