Q: Kreon is Antigone's mother's brother. Does Oidipus have other male family members from his own family? Why is it that his wife's family takes the throne if he does?

O: here reflects the conflict between two kindnesses - ethics and civic obligations. Antigone choose to take family responsibility which was against the edict. It shows Antigone‘s fearless of power and heroism.

E: Oidipous believed that his sons Eteokles and Polyneikes had treated him poorly, so he cursed them to divide his inheritance with weapons, each receiving an equal amount of land. Later, the two brothers killed each other, and the disaster caused by the murder was that Polyneikes' body could not be buried.

O: Here it emphasizes the virtuality of plays and the participation of reader's imagination. Readers need to visualize this drama in their minds according to the author's notes or "instructions".