![]() ![]() ![]() Some critics see Antigone as too self-righteous, even alienating, but others claim her as a seminal feminist, determined to do what is right even in defiance of patriarchal law. It is this edict that drives Antigone to defy the state, since she believes her brother Polyneices deserves the same treatment as Eteocles. Creon has declared that Eteocles will be honored with burial since he was a defender of Thebes, while Polyneices' body is left to the vultures and dogs. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles were casualties in a brutal war for power, each brother dying by the other's hand. After her father went into exile, Antigone and her sister were raised in the house of Creon. Now that Oedipus and his brothers are dead, Antigone and Ismene are the last of the Labdacus family. Antigone is both the daughter and the sister of Oedipus (since he married his own mother). ![]()
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