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Antigone By Creon: Play Analysis
Jonathan espinosa
Mr. West world literature
17 september , 2015

Creon, A new man
The play “Antigone” by Sophocles, is about the king of thieves having a baby with his wife or (queen Iocaste) and the name the baby oedipus, and ___oricals __told the king when oedipus gets older he will be strong enough and would kill the king (or his dad) so they sent him away far away from them but the carrier couldn't hold the guilt so instead he gave oedipus to another family that lived in another land ruled by another leader and the king kept it and raised it as his son, but the someone recognised him and told him he was going to kill his dad but oedipus thought that that was his dad so he ran away , his actual father has gotten word that he is still alive so the dad goes out with some men to kill him so they go and find him. On the way there oedipus did not know the king of thieves was his biological. Oedipus being a prince said to stand out of his way and the the king of thieves refused so they fought and oedipus has killed all the men that were standing his way even the king of thieves .The king is now dead. oedipus was the next king and the queen was his mother . Oedipus then had four kids
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He slowly develops to become a leader, before he became leader we didn't know anything about him but as soon he was a leader it was all about him he was the center of attention . antigone wanted to bury her brother and Creon disapproved it. antigone later buries her brother and she gets punished for it so Creon puts her in a cellar and heres where he starts getting the levels of kohlberg’s theory . Antigone would barely get food so she would starve and antigone didn't wanna die slow she just wanted to get it over with so with her one of her clothing she was wearing she hung herself. After this he slowly starts to become a good leader and realises everything he was doing was wrong. Later, Creon lost his wife and his son

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