Antigone_Review

Antigone Review The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. It started off with her brother, Polyneices trying to invade the city-state of Thebes with his Argive army. Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes because of an edict. But now he his back to reclaim his throne, which is presently occupied by his brother Eteocles. The two brothers and their armies engage in battle and killed each other. With the last of the male in the royal family dead, Creon their uncle is next in line to become king. As his first act as king of Thebes, he issues an edict. The edict forbids anybody to bury the body of Polyneices, which is lying in the earth being eaten by birds and dogs. As the citizen of Thebes knew this edict a sentry reports that the edict has already been violated. With his fierceness Creon told the sentry that either he expose the criminal or he is to be kill. The very next day, the sentry returns to Creon with the Princess Antigone. A baffle Creon demands to know why creon, antigone, haimon, polyneices, tomb, thebes, palace, sentry, father, edict, body, teiresias, bury, out, next, last, video, son, servant, reports, king, killed, ismene, doing, death, creon's, before, because, antigone's, accused, young, wife, way, two, trying, told, should, selling, sees, right, remains, release, reason, princess, place, own, one, oedipus, matter, living, left