Antigone

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Antigone

Raygan DeFillippo
ENG 101
Kreitzer
June 17, 1996

Antigone

     Critics have traditionally divided over the question of whether Antigone or Creon is the protagonist in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles.  The answer lies in ones interpretation of the play.  Is it a play about a woman doomed by the sins of her father,
r is it a play about a king who holds himself more powerful than the gods?
     Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus.  Oedipus, once the king of Thebes, unwittingly killed 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 Creon's (present king of Thebes) decree that Polyneices be denied a burial.  Po...

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