Narrative of Antigon


On 406 B.C, there was live Oedipus, king of Thebes who had four children with queen Jocasta. They were Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene, and Antigone. Years later, Oedipus discovers that his real parents were not the people who raised him. He was actually the son of Laius and  Jocasta. Unconciously, he killed Laius and he married with his mother. Having known the fact, he killed himself.
Polynices  and  Eteocles killed each other to get the power. It made their uncle, Creon mastered the Thebes Kingdom. Creon decreed that the traitor Polynices’s body will be left to rot, unburied. The punishment for burying Polynices is death. But, Antigone had promised to bury the body. She is obeying the higher law of the God, which demand proper burial rites.
Suddenly, the sentry caught her returning to Polynices body to perform more burial rights. She chose to break his law because it was important unwritten laws of the gods, which call for proper burial rituals. She said that she was willing to die if she had to. Ismene arrived and claimed that she’s as guilty as Antigone, but Antigone denied it. Then , Guards took Antigone and Ismene away
Haemon come to speak to his father. Creon told him to forget Antigone because he must punish her who disobeyed the state’s laws. Since she didn’t participate in the crime, Creon decided to spare Ismene. He decided to place Antigone into a sealed tomb alive. Either the God will save her or she’ll starve to death.
Antigone called out the God to make Creon suffered if she was right and he was acting against their wishes. Tiresias came to tell Creon that he was making a terrible mistake.  Tiresias prophesied that the God will punish Creon for killing Antigone by taking the life of his own child. Creon rushed off to free Antigone. Unhappily,  Haemon discovered that Antigone hanged herself, and he did too. Creon and his attendants brought Haemon’s body back to the royal house. Creon grieved and called himself his son’s murderer. Knowing this situation, Creon’s wife, Eurydice, has cursed Creon for killing their son and then killed herself. Creon was a miserable, broken man. He was too stubborn and proud.

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