... too tightly and his grasp no longer hurts. Creon releases her. Creon insists that he will not let politics cause her death. The entire story comes down to politics. He finds rotting corpses as nauseating as Antigone, and he would have buried Polynices as a matter of public hygiene. But ... to him over something so meaningless as Polynices's burial. "Meaningless!" Antigone repeats contemptuously. Creon makes a final appeal that he will tell her the story he alone knows. Antigone sits. He asks her to remember her childhood?how her brothers would torment her and then, when they were older,...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School