Oedipus and Antigone Summary
Oedipus the King is the story of Oedipus who from birth was prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. When his parents found out about this prophecy they told a guard to kill the infant immediately. The guard went out to kill the baby, but found he could not do it, so he nailed the baby to a rock by his foot and intended for nature to do his dirty work. After the guard leaves a Corinthian shepherd finds the baby and takes him to the King and Queen of Corintyh, who raise the baby as their own. Oedipus grew up believing that the King and Queen of Corinth were his true parents, so when he found out about the Oracle's prediction that he would kill his father and marry his mother he left Corinth so he could not fufill the prophecy. On the road to Thebes Oedipus runs into a beggar who refuses to get out of his way, so Oedipus kills the beggar and moves on. As he approaches Thebes he encounters the Sphinx. The Sphinx tells him to answer her riddle correctly or she will kill him. Oedipus does answer the riddle correctly and the
Now that Creon is all alone he sees and admits to his mistakes and fixes all the problems he has created. Antigone tries to bury Polyneices anyway and Creon gets angry and sentences her to death. Once oedipus realizes this he comes to discover that the King and Queen of Thebes are not, as he thought his parents, but King Liaus and Iocasta are. Oedipus sends he trusty brother-in-law Creon to the Oracle at Delphi to find out what is causing this plauge upon Thebes. Etocles and Polyneices fought and killed each other. When Etocles's time is up he rufuses to abdicate the throne to Polyneices, Polyneices forms an army and attacks the seven gates of Thebes. When Creon hears this he goes to the cave to free Antigone. Etocles, being the oldest goes first. The brothers decide to take turns as king. All of a sudden a plauge strikes Thebes and Oedipus and the townspeople are baffled in regard to its cause. He is welcomed as a hero and is made king since the Theban king had died on his way to the Oracle at Delphi. When Oedipus finds his mother and wife dead by her own hand he takes off two of her gold brooches and gauges out his eyes. Oedipus and Iocasta rule Thebes with little incident for many years and they have four children. Antigone is thrown in a cave and will be starved to death. Antigone was not pleased by this and wanted to give Polyneices a proper burial.
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