Oedipus The King: Summary

When Oedipus arrives at colonus, he is immediately told to leave, but he stays because he must die on thy land in order for it to be blessed. When Oedipus arrives outside of Colonus, he is told to leave right away, but he refuses and convinces the chorus to let him stay until anything further is heard from the king. When the king comes out, and realized who Oedipus is, and what his body can do if he dies and is buried on their land, he lets him stay. When Oedipus learns of how his two sons are fighting for the throne, he becomes mad, and places a curse on them that they will kill each other. On Polynices arrival, “He tells of how his brother, Eteocles… turned against him… he plans to regain the throne by force” (Oedipus at Colonus 2). When

When antigone buried Polyneices the first time, the guards unburied him, unable to catch Antigone. But when Antigone comes back a second time to re-bury Polynices, she was caught and went willingly forward to face her punishment. Talking to the Chorus, Creon states, “She showed herself capable of insolence then, going beyond the laws put before her” (Sophocles 492-494). This quote in scene two shows that Antigone knew what she was getting herself into when she went to bury her brother, Polynices. It also shows how Antigone will face her punishment head-on, not caring what happens to herself, as she thinks her life is miserable

When Creon goes to release Antigone he finds her hanged, and his son mourning her. and when he goes to complain about what Haemon is doing, Haemon swings his sword at Creon, but misses. And when he misses, he kills himself, and dies with Antigone is his arms. And when a messenger informs Creon’s wife of what had happened, she commits suicide. So, after Creon returns home, he finds his wife dead as well. After realising everything Tiresias has said had come true, Creon states, “I have just held my child in my arms, poor thing, and here is another corpse before me. Alas for the poor mother, alas for the child” (Sophocles 1306-1307). This particular quote in the exodus shows that everything Tiresias had said, came true, and that Creon’s life as he knows it, is destroyed. It also shows that Creon should’ve freed her sooner, because now he has been punished for everything he’d done