Creon's Burial In Sophocles Antigone

To begin, in Antigone, Eteocles is given an appropriate burial, however Creon, who has inherited the throne, has released a new law banning a burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Antigone does not listen and follows the laws of the Gods instead, deciding to bury her brother anyway, and unfortunately she ends up getting caught. When Creon locks her away, she hangs herself, triggering Haemon, Creon’s son who is in love with Antigone, to stab himself. Which in effect causes Creon’s wife, also Haemon’s mother, to kill herself. Creon then finds himself alone resulting in his downfall.

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Before Creon, Oedipus (king at the time) was banished, leaving his sons, Polynices and Eteocles, to rule together. The two brothers arranged to alternate custody of the throne each year; yet, after only the first year, Eteocles, the younger brother, refused to step down from the throne and then drove his brother into exile in Argos, where Polynices married the daughter of the king in Argos. The king sent his army into Thebes to protect Polynices, except both brothers died killing each other in battle. Consequently, in Creon's mind, since Polynices attacked Thebes, he must be a traitor and is unworthy of a burial, while, since Eteocles was protecting Thebes, he must be a hero of Thebes and earns a proper burial regardless, that he was keeping his older brother from the agreement they had to their father. Thus, Creon believed that, in creating the law to deny Polynices' a burial, he is re-establishing law and order in a distressed Thebes and placing himself as the new and reliable king. Creon and Antigone act as each others foil throughout the play, as Creon seems to suggest a scheme of rule that takes priority over the importance of family, and Antigone, through her persistent refusal to be frightened into overlooking her morality, presents the contrary. In this play, both viewpoints are shown to lead to death, that Sophocles seems to indicate is the only way to resolve this