What is Creon’s motivation for forbidding the burial of his own nephew?Why would he issue an edict that runs so contrary to his family obligations?
What will be an ideal response?
- The edict itself makes Creon’s motive unmistakably clear:
In consonance with this, I here proclaim to the citizens about Oedipus’ sons. For Eteocles, who died this city’s champion, showing his valor’s supremacy everywhere, he shall be buried in his grave with every rite of sanctity given to heroes under earth.
However, his brother, Polyneices, a returned exile, who sought to burn with fire from top to bottom his native city, and the gods of his own people; who sought to taste the blood he shared with us, and lead the rest of us to slavery— I here proclaim to the city that this man shall no one honor with a grave and none shall mourn. You shall leave him without burial; you shall watch him chewed up by birds and dogs and violated. Such is my mind in the matter; never by me shall the wicked man have precedence in honor over the just. But he that is loyal to the state
in death, in life alike, shall have my honor. (lines 211–229)
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