Antigone or Creon the protagonist in "Antigone", written by Sophocles

Antigone         Critics have traditionally divided oer the question of whether Antigone or Creon is the protagonist in the needinesson, Antigone, by Sophocles. The answer lies in ones rendition of the play. Is it a play most a woman assign by the sins of her father, r is it a play about a mogul who holds himself more powerful than the gods?         Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus. Oedipus, in one case the fag of Thebes, unknowingly shooted his father and married his mother. Four children, Polyneices, Etocles, Antigone, and Ismene were the products of that union. When Oedipus learns the true ident y of Iocaste, his wife and mother, he blinds himself and leaves Thebes. His two sons, Polyneices and Etocles, wage war over the control of Thebes, and kill each other in doing so.         When the play opens, Antigone is speaking with her sister, Ismene, about Creons (present king of Thebes) decree that Polyneices be denied a buri al. Polyneices body for beat back be put into the fields, unburied, as punishment for his attack on Thebes. Antig e decides she must eat up the body.         If Antigone is the protagonist of this play, then the action is a further saga in the chapter of Oedipus. Oedipus and his family are doomed for his sin against the gods.

Sophocles describes this in Ode II:         Where once the anger of heaven has struck, that house has shaken         For always: eternal damnation rises behind each child         Like a lead astray cresting out of the black northea st,         When the long dark! ness under nautical roars up         And bursts drumming death upon the whindwhipped sand (336). Creon becomes a scape of the gods utilise to further the doom of the family of Oedipus.         Antigone knows that she is cursed. In the prologue, Antigone says, . . . You would think that... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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