Antigone

Antigone is a tragedy written in 442 BC by Sophocles. It is chronologically the third of the three Theban plays, but was written first. The heroine, Antigone, opens the play attempting to defy the tyrant Creons orders that her brother Polynices lie unburied. Polynices had attacked the city in the Seven Against Thebes campaign and was killed, along with his brother Eteocles who was argue the city. Antigone is caught by a sentry and is brought before Creon, with her sister Ismene, who was constituent her. Creon believes his order is for the good of the city but many multitude disagree with him, including the members of the chorus and his son Haemon. Haemon attempts to defend Antigone, whom he wishes to marry, from the last sentence given to her by Creon, but he is thwarted and Antigone is left to die in a cave. The blind illusionist Tiresias then tells Creon that his actions are not beneficial to the city at all, and in fact are causing a miasm (pollution) and will eventually lead to his downfall. Creon is torn but comes to the induction that Polynices must be buried and Antigone must not be killed, but it is too late: Antigone has already hanged herself in her cave, fair(a) as her mother Jocasta hanged herself (in Oedipus the King), and Haemon, on his way to rescue her, kills himself when he is too late.



Haemons mother Eurydice also kills herself in grief oer her son.
The play is also notable as one of the just plays in which the inside of the palace setting is channelisen. Usually in Greek tragedy all action took place immaterial of the house or palace depicted on the skene (the scope of the stage); deaths took place inside, unseen by the audience. In this play, however, the skene was opened to show Creon finding the body of Eurydice. The character of the sentry is also unusual, as he speaks like a lower-class person, in more(prenominal) natural language, rather than the stylized poetry of the other characters. He has been compared to similar characters in the works of...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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