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Oedipus The King Summary

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King Oedipus has died, leaving his two sons Eteocles and Polyneices to the Kingdom of Thebes. Not being able to choose between the two, Oedipus orders that his sons take turns being the ruler. After a while, Eteocles does not want to step down causing the two brothers to fight over the title. They go to war and both end up dead. Their uncle Creon then becomes the king. He gives a proper funeral to Eteocles but wants the body of Polyneices to rot. Oedipus’s daughter, Antigone meets her sister at Ismene at the gates palace in Thebes. Despite her uncle’s orders, Antigone feels it is her duty to bury her brother’s body and asks her sister to assist her. Ismene refuses, arguing that they “are only women, not meant in nature to fight against men,

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