Exploration notes on : Plots and Sub-Plots of "Antigone".

The play opens in semi-darkness (the sun has not yet risen). move night the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices killed each other - one defending, one spark advance the attack on the city of Thebes. Their sisters Antigone and Ismene are discovered oustside the palace, where Antigone tells Ismene the word of honor that only Eteocles is to be buried properly. Polyneices is to be left give away on the battlefield as food for the crows and dogs. Their uncle Creon (new ruler since the finale of Eteocles) has decreed that anyone caught burying him testament be put to death. Antigone says she will bury him anyway - Ismene refuses to help her sister, because she feels that its not fitting for a girl to defy authority.

Antigone goes off defiantly to bury the consistency; Ismene slinks back into the palace. As the sun floods the stage, the Chorus - men who were as well old to fight - march in, celebrating the great mastery of the Thebans against the seven who came to capture their city. But they dont know that Eteocles, the king, and his brother Polyneices, leader of the Seven, take away killed each other in a duel - and that the kingship has passed to Creon, the boys uncle.



Nor do they know of Creons edict - that Eteocles body is to be buried with wide of the mark honours, while Polyneices is to be left out on the plain.

The Chorus, their victory song complete, notice Creon approach. We realise they are the kings counsellors, summoned to receive book of instructions from their new ruler. He begins to outline his philosophy of kingship. The ship of realm has survived a fierce pounding. A king is like a father, and the state is like a family. He must prepare no favorites, and the safety of his...

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