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

Antigone         Critics have traditionally divided all over the question of whether Antigone or Creon is the protagonist in the contact, Antigone, by Sophocles. The answer lies in ones interpreting of the play. Is it a play most a woman steer 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, once the mogul 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 overwhelm 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: damnation rises behind each child         Like a throw off cresting out of the black northeast,         When the long darkness under maritime roars up         And bursts drumming death upon the whindwhipped sand (336). Creon becomes a cats-paw 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 loss! to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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