After all of his fears were confirmed, Oedipus rushed into his home to find that Jocasta had killed herself. In a heroic act, Oedipus then blinded himself saying, "Now, what can I ever see to love? What greeting can ever please me to hear? Cast me out of this place, my friends, quickly, cast me out: I am the destroyer, the curse, the man gods loathe most of all" (Sophocles, 57). Oedipus asked his brother-in-law Creon to exile him from the country. He said goodbye to his young children, and left the country. This was a heroic deed because he did not have to exile himself, but he chose to follow the gods orders and live up to what he was destined for.
Odeipus" daughter, Antigone, is also a character that has lived up to the heroic code standards. She had a difficult childhood; both her father and mother were not in her life because of the tragic events that occurred when she was a child. When her two brothers faced off in a civil war, her family was torn apart even more than it already was. Her brother Polyneices was killed by her other brother, Eteokles. Creon, the king, gave Eteokles a proper burial, but refused to bury Polyneices. Antigone felt that her brother, Polyneices, deserved a proper burial, no matter what the cost. .
She proceeded to bury her brother, and when Creon found out that someone had buried Polyneices, he made it a point to find this person and punish them. Antigone admitted that she was the one who buried her brother, and she asked Creon whose decree was it that her brother could not be buried? It was not the decree of the gods, but of the mortal King Creon, and he wanted to kill her for going against his will. I don't think that if the gods had said that Polyneices should not be buried, Antigone would not have disobeyed them. However, Creon was very narrow-minded and he decided to carry out with his plans for Antigone. She was committed to a tomb where she eventually killed herself.