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Creon's wife, however, feared that he might marry Tisiphone because of her great beauty, and sold the girl as a slave.
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Eurydice, Creon's wife and Haemon's mother, enters and asks the Messenger to tell her everything.
Both Creon and Antigone show much pride which leads to their fates, with Creon's wife and son being killed and Antigone herself dying.
When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of the death of Haemon, she too took her own life.
Creon's wife sold Tisiphone into slavery, envious of her beauty.
When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their deaths, she, too, took her own life.
Creon's wife Eurydice, informed of Haemon's death, took her own life out of grief.
When Creon's wife, Eurydice, is informed of Haemon's death she takes her own life out of grief and with her last breath curses Creon.
When Creon's wife, Eurydice, is informed of her son and Antigone's deaths, she too takes her own life.
Creon's and because
Tiresias responds that because of Creon's mistakes, he will lose " a son of own loins " for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied and putting Antigone into the earth ( he does not say that Antigone should not be condemned to death, only that it is improper to keep a living body underneath the earth ).
Creon's and her
Antigone determines this to be unjust, immoral and against the laws of the gods, and is determined to bury her brother regardless of Creon's law.
Antigone buries her brother by herself ; eventually Creon's guards discover this and capture her.
Sophocles ' Antigone ends in disaster, with Antigone hanging herself after being walled up, and Creon's son Haemon ( or Haimon ), who loved Antigone, killing himself after finding her body.
Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who is betrothed to Creon's son, Haemon, defies him by burying her brother, and is condemned to be entombed alive as punishment.
Ismene tells her father that it is Creon's plan to come for him and bury him at the border of Thebes, without proper burial rites, so that the power which the oracle says his grave will have will not be granted to any other land.
This dilemma of obedience in conscience to divine or state law, was demonstrated dramatically in Antigone's defiance of King Creon's order against burying her brother an alleged traitor, appealing to the " unwritten law " and to a " longer allegiance to the dead than to the living ".
Creon's and .
Later in Thebes, Heracles married King Creon's daughter, Megara.
Antigone is brought before Creon, where she declares that she knew Creon's law but chose to break it, expounding upon the superiority of ' divine law ' to that made by man.
In the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the palace gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polyneices ' body, in defiance of Creon's edict.
Haemon, Creon's son, enters to pledge allegiance to his father.
This turn of events will eventually lead to Creon's downfall.
She says to Ismene about Creon's edict, " He has no right to keep me from my own.
Antigone responds with the idea that state law is not absolute, and that it can be broken in civil disobedience in extreme cases, such as honoring the gods, whose rule and authority outweigh Creon's.
Creon's decree to leave Polyneices unburied in itself makes a bold statement about what it means to be a citizen, and what constitutes abdication of citizenship.
It is revoked when Polyneices commits what in Creon's eyes amounts to treason.
In a search for the identity of the killer, Oedipus followed Creon's suggestion and sent for Tiresias, who warned him not to seek Laius ' killer.
The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices himself.
Creon imprisoned Antigone in a sepulchre ; meanwhile the gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order.
The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices.
These actions cause Creon's madness at the play's conclusion.
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