The play Antigone by Sophocles takes place in ancient Thebes. Two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, fight for the throne. In the final battle the two brothers slay each other and their uncle Creon becomes king. Eteocles had supported Thebes in the battle, so the new king Creon proclaimed that Eteocles would be buried with full rites as a hero. However, his brother Polyneices would be left unburied as a traitor and anyone who defied this edict would die. Antigone was the sister of both Eteocles and Polyneices. She could not let one her brothers be left unburied and so she performs the rites of burial on Polyneices. In the first passage, Creon and his son Haemon had gotten into an argument. Creon discovers that his own son doesn't support him and in anger Creon sentences Antione.
             "I'll take her down a path untrod by man. I'll hide her living in rock-hewn vault, with ritual food enough to clear the taint of murder from the City's name. I'll leave her pleading to her favorite god-Hades. He may charm her out a way to life. Or perhaps she'll learn though late the cost of homage to the dead is: labor lost."(Pg. 190)
             In the second passage, the blind prophet Tireseas has come to warn Creon. Tireseas says that Creon's actions have doomed him and that Creon must not punish Antigone. Creon
             responds by accusing Tireseas of lying and being corrupt. Angered by Creon's harsh words. Tireseas foretells of Creon's demise.
             "A corpse for a corpse the price, and flesh for flesh-One of your own begotten. The sun shall not run his course for many days before you pay. You plunged a child of light into the dark; Entombed the living with the dead; the dead dismissed, unmourned denied a grave, a corpse, unhallowed and defeated of his destiny below. Where neither you nor gods above must meddle you have thrust your thumbs. Do not be surprised that heaven yes and hell have set t...