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- Scene 5
- Prologue
- Polyneices and Eteocles fight to the death to see who will become the new king, and they both die doing so. But only one gets a honorable burial .
- "Listen, Ismene:Creon buried our brother EteoclesWith military honors, gave him a soldier’s funeral,And it was right that he should; but Polyneices,Who fought as bravely and died as miserably—" (15-18)
- Scene 1
- Creon didn't want anyone to burry Polyneices, because he believed that he was a traitor, and traitors don't get honorable burials.
- "slavery—Polyneices, I say, is to have noburial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for him;he shall lie on the plain, unburied; and the birds and thescavenging dogs can do with him whatever they like." (40-42)
- Scene 2
- Antigone got caught trying to burry her brother Polyneices.
- "Creon. But this is Antigone! Why have you brought her here?Sentry. She was burying him, I tell you!Creon (severely). Is this the truth?Sentry. I saw her with my own eyes. Can I say more?" (18-20)
- Scene 3
- "Then she must die. But her death will cause another." (119)
- Creon sentence Antigone to death for dis respecting his orders and laws he has set in place, while Haemon is arguing with Creon about her freedom.
- "You’ll never marry her while she lives." (118)
- Scene 4
- Antigone is accepting her fate (Death)
- "Antigone. Then let me go, since all your words are bitter,And the very light of the sun is cold to me.Lead me to my vigil, where I must haveNeither love nor lamentation; no song, but silence." (49-52)
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