Summary of Antigone, is a story that focuses on the role of the leader in a city, who gave a terrible example of bad attitude that a king should never have as qualities, in order not to be condemned as Creon finally happened.
Summary of Antigone
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, sister of Ismene, Polyneices and Eteocles. She went in the company of her father, when he was blind when he went to Colono. We recommend Don Álvaro or the force of fate
Creon, the king of Thebes, gave instructions that the corpses of his brothers should not be buried. The young woman did not comply with her order, for which she received the punishment of being buried. She preferred to die.
Greek tragedy of Sophocles
Summary of Antigone is a work that is based on the myth of Antigone, after King Oedipus was banished from the city of Thebes when he learned of his incest and murder of his relatives.
Then, his younger son named Eteocles, states that the kingdom belongs only to him, took the opportunity to send his own older brother named Polyneices into exile. Later Polyneices, attacked Thebes in the company of a large troop, however, none of the sons won because they killed themselves during the fight.
Being Creon, the brother of Jocasta, the new king of Thebes, announces that Eteocles, who was a king of Thebes, son of Oedipus and Jocasta, brother of Polyneices, was buried with all the honors of a hero, while the body without life of Polyneices was thrown in a separate place to rot and gobbled up the dogs, the punishment for trying to bury the corpse is death.
In this way the events were passing, the angry Antigone influences so that the corpse of her brother was given burial, so that her spirit will rest in peace, she pressed despite the sensible advice that Ismene, her younger sister, owes her.
Antigone decides to go to the place of the contest in front of the city of Thebes, immediately afterwards she throws sand on the lifeless body of her brother Polyneices together with funerary rituals. Antigone allows her to be captured after emerging from the site where she was hidden, when certain guards come to clean the dust spilled from her, while the warrior Antigone moved her in the presence of Creon.
Creon, astonished by the behavior of a woman who dared not comply with his orders, authorizes Antigone to be imprisoned together with her sister Ismene, as an accomplice, and at once orders their execution.
But then Creon's son, named Hemon, intervenes so that Antigone is released since he is engaged to marry her despite the fact that his arrogant father acts sarcastically about him, he does not take into account his anguish.
But, Hemon, the son of Creon and Eurydice, in a state of anger runs away, feels hurt and mocked by the way his own father treats him.
But Creon suddenly changes his mind, announcing that he will only execute Antigone, for Iseme considers her innocent, while her sister is transferred away from the city of Thebes, to be buried in a cave and starved to death.
While Antigone is going through this suffering, Tiresias, a blind soothsayer from the city of Thebes, alerts Creon that the gods are deeply enraged, because he has not allowed Polyneices to be buried, and also that the dogs and birds that eat the meat of the carcass, are later used for sacrifices.
Which brings as a consequence or as a punishment that Creon's son dies suddenly, which the prophet Tiresias predicts for him. Creon brazenly mocks the prophet, admitting no advice, saying that Tiresias wants to scare him. But, in the end he admits to burying the murdered man after the Choir of Theban members reminded him that the prophet Tiresias had never been wrong in his announcements of him.
Being anguished by his son, Creon goes to clean the lifeless body of Polyneices, and begins to carry out funerary rituals, among which he cremates the remains of the body. Immediately he leaves to give Antigone freedom, in the cave where she was locked up, but it is too late to prevent a tragedy: she is killed by hanging herself with a rope, Hemon is crying bitterly under her body.
Then, after lunging at Creon, Hemon proceeds to stab his own body, and dies clutching Antigone's cold, lifeless body. Creon, disconsolate, returns to the palace, where he knows that his wife, Eurydice, has committed suicide, knowing the death of her son.
Creon was transferred by his citizens to a remote place, where he laments and longs to be freed from the pain that only death can calm.