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A 5 page paper which examines Antigone’s heroic character and considers how she can be regarded as an early feminist. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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patriarchy and do as her male superiors told her. She was a strong woman of strong convictions and extraordinary courage who was cut out of the same heroic mold
as Homers Achilleus, and she would make a stand in the name of principle, no matter what dire consequences she would have to face for her actions. Antigone had
undergone much humiliation in her family life, which perhaps had imbued her with a steely resolve. Her father was the ill-fated King Oedipus of Thebes, who had married his
mother Jocasta, and fathered four children with her, including Antigone and another daughter, Ismene, and sons Eteocles and Polynices. After Oedipus
was banished from Thebes, his brother-in-law Creon assumed the kingship, and developed a strong and no-nonsense authoritative style where his word was law. During a civil war, Polynices and
Eteocles fought on opposite sides. When they are both killed in battle, Creon proclaims that Eteocles will receive a heros burial while refusing to bury Polynices, the rebel leader,
whose body will openly decay and serve as food for the animals. Antigone is outraged; she believes that Polynices should also receive a proper burial, and she enlists the
services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to Ismene, because like all heroic figures, Antigone was not about to abandon a cause without a
fight: "Our friend Creon has decided / To discriminate between our brothers corpses. Eteocles he buried with full honors / To light his way to hell in a blaze
of glory. / But poor dear Polynices, -- his remains / Are not allowed a decent burial. / He must be left unmourned, without a grave, / A happy hunting
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