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Bridal Imagery of Antigone

Bridal Imagery of Antigone

In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, the protagonist, Antigone, defies all of the beliefs held by the society she lives in, and breaks the king’s law on account of her own morals.  Originally, one of Antigone’s two brothers was supposed to take control of the throne, however, in a duel over the crown, they both died. As a result of her brothers’ deaths, her uncle, Creon, the antagonist in the play, is given control of throne of Thebes.  “I now possess the throne and all its powers, by nearess of kinship to the dead.” (Oates/ O’Neill, 193) Creon held the belief that of Antigone’s two brothers, Eteocles should have rightfully taken control of the throne, because he felt that her other brother, Polynices, had been disloyal to the city of Thebes.  Polynices, therefore, was not given the honor of a formal burial, which was considered a very valued ritual in Thebes. “But for his brother, Polynices,- who came back from exile, and sought to consume utterly with fire to the city of his fathers and the shrines to lead the remnant into slavery;- touching this man, it hath been proclaimed to our people that

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