Oedipus was not at fault for killing his father and then marring his father because he killed the winged lion.

In the two Greek stories Oedipus the King and Antigone had a great tragic ending that couldn’t have gone any worse.

Not knowing that it was him.

When Oedipus and his mother married they had four children.

In a war against Polynices and Etocles both of them die.

Did Oedipus have to marry Jocasta; he could have avoided this if he was more careful.

He found out about his prophecy to kill his father, and marry his mother, so to escape this fate, he ran away from Corinth, and the parents he thought was his blood parents.

In the end Oedipus finds out that he was the one who killed the king before him and the same person was his father. To add more to his corrupted life, he then married his mother Jocasta.

Many people in the present day, with that kind of history, would probably turn to drugs or depression to relieve their pressures of reality and of day to day situations.

Having her dad turn out to be her half brother as well and on top of that loosing both of her brothers in the war.

Much like Oedipus, Antigone (character ins Jean Anouilh’s, “Antigone”) is one who deserves great favor as well as sympathy also.

Oedipus was faded to kill his father, Laius and marry his mother, Jocasta, therefore much of his life went beyond his control.

It all started When their was this royal couple named Laius and Jocasta.

Than he continued on with hid journey and somehow became the King of Themes and the Queen was his mother Jocasta, so he ended up marrying his mother too.

When he receives the news that both of the brother had died in that war he announces that Polynices was the one who is getting buried because he was not a trader

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and was fighting for the city of Thebes and since Etocles which was trader, is not going to be buried.

Therefore, he felt he had to run away in order to escape the future prediction, in other words his was trying trick his faith, his future.

Now at the time Oedipus did not know that this King and his new wife were his real parents, but they were.

But I probably would have of just killed my self because it would have of been less painful and that way I just put my self out of my own misery.

The town in the story agreed with Antigone, the reaction received from them was like, what, we are going to do what.

Oedipus surviving and being raised by the king and queen of Corinth was all part of his destiny. Nothing he did was pre-determined.

Its tuff to see your family go but when you have an empire to rule, which is another family, and money to spend you’re all of the sudden not on the bottom of the totem pole.

When he ran from Corinth and returned to Thebes, the place where he was born, is really crazy.

If my brother died and my other brother, who killed him, did not want to bury him, we would fight.

So his lack of control would defiantly have to justify himself.

Oedipus killed a man, the man being his real father, and is guilty of killing a man. Regardless whether he knew it was his father or not.

She also gives reasons that Polynices is her brother, for whom she only had two and she could only have two because both of her parents were dead.

Antigone is also pressured to marry Haemon and she finds that she cannot be happy enough; she then gets arrested and is ordered to die young.

He just did not know who was his birth parents.

The story following Oedipus, involves Creon and Oedipus’s daughter, Antigone.

The responsibility of an action always lies upon the executioner.

By not giving the proper burial of a diseased human is suggesting that the person is not worth the burial, that their life was worthless and insignificant.

If Oedipus did not kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus would not have condemned himself, remaining king, averting the feud amongst his sons, stopping the feud between Antigone and Creon, thus creating a less dissonant Thebes.

Oedipus’s father and mother gave birth to him, and the oracle at the time told them that Oedipus was destined to kill his father and marry his mother.

In an act to bury her brother Antigone tries to bury her brother.

Rather than solving the problem, it causes a more greater problem by having Antigone and other characters kill themselves.

Oedipus scarified his own ability to see to suffer for the consequences of his actions but the dramatic thing was that it was not his fault someone who thought they were so mighty wanted to do such a horrible thing to an innocent guy.

Even though he is somewhat all powerful, he has no right to even think about killing his own father and to get with his own mother, and on top of all that, have children with his mother as well.

Antione tries to explain to Ismene that the sprite will walk around unhappy and will haunt them for not barriering it. Creon’s whole point for putting a laws against move the body form were it is at is, Creon fells Polynices was a trader, that he was traitorous and leaving the body there was an example.

I personally would sympathize more with Oedipus than Antigone.

It was told by the ancient profits that the boy would kill his own father and marry his mother.

Of course Oedipus did all these things out of his own free will not knowing of the predictions, but it is my opinion that you cant outrun fait.

It may seem like that in the beginning, but as the plot developes more and more, surprises and twists pop out all over, all in the end that just make you wanna throw up.

On the other hand, his two sons Thebes and Polynices are very smart and don’t have the same instinct like they’re dad, because if they did, they wouldn’t be dead; probably.

Another reason was that by the end of the play, his son along with his wife were all dead.

In going out to fulfill his prophecy, Oedipus kills a man which he was angered by, that man was his father who was also the king.

Through what she went through, in the end Antigone drove herself over the edge and in the end ended up killing herself.

Once Creon finds out that the God’s are on Antigone’s side he decides to not kill her but to kill the traitor Polynices.

I am just very sympathetic for people who make one mistake and it destroys their enter life because I know that could happen to me and has happened to me, one decision I have made messed all my plans up a couple of times.

A lot of people probley would also feel this way because you cant be in charge of your own faith ever and this story is just simply saying you cant try and change you faith all you want but in most cases you faith is you faith and its going happen to you no matter what you do to stop it.

Since the Antigone’s brother betrayed his people, he still deserves to have a proper burial.