Creon took over the throne because Oedipus’ two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, were too young to become rulers. For example, Oedipus plucked his own eyes out after finding his wife hanging dead above their bed and then Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed Creon’s father and married his mother. On the other hand, there lives had some significant differences.
They also both had families and one of their children committed suicide. For instance, Oedipus and Creon wives both killed themselves. When comparing Oedipus and Creon life and tragedies there experiences are very similar. In other words, being given absolute power will corrupt anyone when they are unfaithful to the higher power.
Creon’s actions against Antigone and against Polynices’ body show him attempting to interfere with the order of nature, defying the gods by asserting his own control over their territories. Tiresias points out that Creon committed a horrible sin for “burying” a living human being inside a grave, as he keeps a rotting body in daylight. Her imprisonment is also a symbol of Creon’s lack of judgment and his unfaithfulness of the higher power. Her imprisonment in a tomb symbolizes the fact that her loyalties and feelings lie with the higher power. He intends to leave her with just enough food and water so that neither him nor the citizens of Thebes will have any of her blood on their hands when dies. Creon condemned Antigone to a horrifying fate: being “buried” alive inside a tomb. It does not take Ceron long to figure out the Polynices sister had given him a proper burial. Someone has given a proper burial to Polynices’ corpse, and no one knows who has done it. A sentry comes with a message for the king, he finally reports the scandalous news. Antigone rejected Ismene’s arguments, saying that she will only honor and love higher power and only abide by the law and death of the higher power. Ismene claims he loved her bother but does not wish to go against the king’s new law and she does not want to risk punishment by death. Knowing they have little power is the situation, Antigone insists that she will bury Polynices, and asks for Ismene’s help. Antigone ignores Creon’s recent law that whoever tries to bury or mourn Polynices must be put to death.
Now that the two sons of Oedipus are death at the hands of each other Creon is now temporary king. The brothers fought for control of Thebes, they have now died at each other’s hands. Polynices was Oedipus oldest and set to become king but that was no the case. Creon story started off raising his cousin children. Oedipus now blind and knowing the truth of his past was banished from the city he once ruled. Crying because he could not bear to see the world now that he had learned the truth. He then took the gold pins that held her robes and, with them, stabbed out his eyes. He burst through the bedroom door, where he saw Jocasta hanging from a noose. Jocasta is mother/wife is dead, by suicide. However, Oedipus still fears the part of the prophecy that said he would sleep with his mother is true, which after all he was and had four children with her. Oedipus is convinced that since Polybus is dead from natural causes, the prophecy that Oedipus will murder his father is false. A messenger has come to Thebes to tell Oedipus that his father, Polybus, is dead and Oedipus is to rule. Oedipus then accuses Tiresias of the murder, Tiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus himself is the murder. Tiresias does not tell him and responses he knows the murders name but does not wish to tell him. The blind prophet Tiresias meet with Oedipus who begs him to reveal who Laius’s murderer is. He must be die in order for the plague to end. Creon then tells what he has learned from the god Apollo, who said the murderer of Laius, who ruled Thebes before Oedipus.
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The city has been struck by a plague, the citizens are dying, and no one knows how to put an end to it. Oedipus’ story started out as him being a prince of Thebes. On the other hand, some people might believe that Creon had the worse punishment out of the two. Some people might declare that Oedipus was punished worse than Creon.
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