HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Eteocles, Polynices, Ismene
6 Mar 2018
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Antigone"s situation is complicated, because her father is also her brother. There is two downfalls in this play: the downfall of antigone, the downfall of her uncle creon, who in the beginning has everything and by the end has nothing. Eteocles and polynices kill each other at the same time, and creon takes over thebes. The poem starts with antigone really angry because creon has left her brother polynices"s body outside to rot for having attacked thebes: this is seen as a disgrace to her. Antigone says that she chooses to bury her brother and die in honour so as to not dishonour the gods of the underworld: ismene will not follow her into this extreme choice of death for honour. Creon: he is more rm in this poem than the last, he gives a great speech about how much power he has, and how everything is his now.
