You were controlled by your owners and they decided how you would spend your day. No matter how hard you tried to change where you were or what you were doing, slavery was your lifestyle. ... She knows what Oedipus did to the King, she knows that Oedipus is her first son, she knows that she married the boy with the pinned up ankles that she left to die in the mountains. ... As well as "My god, my god - what have you planned to do to me" (p. 202)? ... If anything those who punished people because of their fate should be the ones receiving the punishment, not giving. ...

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She feels that if she cannot be happy then no one will. ... She wants to know what has him so angered. ... Laius and Jocasta were told that they should not have children, for if they do the child will murder his father and wed his mother. ... Stop- in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! ... too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! ...

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Creon is the antagonist who believes that the rebel, Polynices, should not be buried. He thinks that he should be left out to rot, to show the city what would happen if they disobeyed him. ... She does not want to die and she does not want Antigone to die. She agrees to be punished also, but she is not sure if she should just let her sister suffer. ... Fight for what you know is right: Antigone knew that by leaving a body out in the open was wrong. ...

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It is unseemly that a household drudge Should be misproud ; but she was conversant with outrage, ever since she passed the bounds Laid down by law ; then hard upon that deed Comes this, the second outrage, to exult And Triumph in her deed, Truly if here She wielded such powers uncensured, she is man, I woman! ... Creon believes wholeheartedly that he is above the gods stating "Is not the city held to be his who rules it?" ... Antigone: Who knows this is not piety there? ... Creon: Then get you down thither, and love, if you must love, the dead! ... Without the knowledge of the prophecy of Oed...

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For example, the God Apollo tells Oedipus, "You are fated to couple with your mother, you will bring a breed of children into the light no man can bear to see-you will kills your father, the one who gave you life!" ... He does not second-guess what fate has in store for his city and knows nothing can be done about it. ... Tiresia warns, " you and your loved ones live together in infamy, you cannot see how far you've gone in guilt." ... So far, Sophocles has shown how man is free to choose and do as he pleases, but cannot escape his own fate. ... Here, Oedipus says that he is a free wille...

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He feels he must boast in front of his wife, the one person who should not need convincing of his greatness. ... Any good Greek should know the dangers of hubris, but Oedipus is a bit of a braggart: "And justly you will see in me an ally, a champion of my country and the God" (Oedipus Rex, 135-136). ... At the end of the book, Creon takes over, but the Greek audience, who is familiar with the story in Sophocles's trilogy, knows that he too will become arrogant and corrupt. ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... She begs for one...

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