Antigone

Antigone was written in 441 BC by So[phocles. The antagonist in this play was Antigone, who ws the daughter of Oedipus. Antigone was the antagonist because she was in opposiition to the protagonist, which was Creon. Creon is the King of Thebes adn is going to have Antigone put to death for committing hte crime of burying her brother, Polyneices. Polyneices was killed by his brother and found guilty of treason, and was sentenced to public humiliation by a refusal of a burial. Because of her love for Polyneices Antigone gave her brother a proper burial, hence breaking the law made by Creon.

The information given by the playwright, not verbalized ws simply that Antigone is the daugher of Oedipus.

Antigone believes that she is a good person, who is only doing what is right. As she ws talking to her sister, Ismene she said, "Bury my brother? Yes-and buyr yours, if you will not. No one shall call me faithless." THis is proof that ANtigone is doing this crime out of confidence that she is doing what she feels should be done. Ant

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"I mean them no dishonor; but when it means defying the state-I am not strong enough.

The people of Thebes feel that Antigone is doing what is right and she does not deserve the fate that she is about to receive. She was quoted with saying, "he has no right to keep me from my own," about Creon. Antigone was willing to accept hte punishment bethrowed on her by Creon because she does not feel that the crime she committed was wrong, and she was willing to face the concequences. " Haemon is the fiance of Antigone, "But there is Hemon, your youngest son. He feels that if one breaks the lws that he has made they should suffer punishment-especially if the perosn is a woman.

Polyneices is the brother to both Antigone and ISmene. " Creon is Antigone's uncle, "No, even though seh be my sister's chid. " Ismene is at first angry with her sister for iwshing to break the law, but she does feel that Antigone is doing the right thing. " "No woman," they say, "has ever deserved death or less, or died so shamefully in a noble cause. "But I can hear these murmurs in the dark, the feelin in the city for this girl. Does he come to grieve for the doom that has fallen upon Antigone, his promised bride. igone also feels that she is a person of strong will who will not let other people keep her from doing what she feels is right in her heart.

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