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Creon vs. Antigone in the burial of Polyneices
When King Oedipus learned that he lived his life under a curse, unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother, he poked out his own eyes and dissappeared into exile. After Oedipus' abandonment, toghether his sons Eteocles and Polyneices ruled Thebes. The two brothers event ....
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.... in the future.
Antigone, on the other hand, is determined to bury her brother. She feels that he fouth just as bravely and died just as miserably as Eteocles did, therefore should be buried as a man not as an animal left for the birds to pick on his dead body. She is also afraid that leaving his corpse unburied could possibly offend Zeus, which would bring to Thebes plague, curse, and aridness. Antigone feels that it will also prevent his heroic soul from entering the Elysian Fields, the residence of those favored by the gods. She is wi ....
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