6/30/2023 0 Comments Antigone play![]() ![]() ![]() However, in this version, we take a fresh look at Antigone's own rigidity as an equal contributor to this story's devastating ending. Antigone is usually seen as the righteous heroine while Creon is the hated villain. Creon, the ascending king, proclaims, "Regarding the bodies of the sons of Oedipus: Eteocles, a hero who fought for Thebes…will be given a hero's burial…But for Polyneices who recruited foreign troops to attack our home-let his corpse rot under the sweltering sun, food for the birds and the dogs…Anyone who dares to bury the enemy will be publicly executed." So begins this adaptation of Antigone, who battles Creon, her uncle, for the right in God's name to bury her dead brother, Polyneices, but loses that fight in a horrifying conclusion to this story. ![]()
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