longing for revenge against Polyneices for returning to attack Thebes. He is so blinded by his pettiness that he cannot see the disaster he is about to bring upon himself and the "State" he purports to love. He refuses to recognize that his decree to not bury the corpse has offended the gods: "The gods favor this corpse? Why? How had he served them?/ Tried to loot their temples, burn their images,/ Yes, and the whole State, and the laws with it!" (1202). But he has deeply offended the gods, as well as the people of the state. He is so single-minded about having revenge on Polyneices that he hears or sees nothing which might awaken and save him.
It is clear from the strange natural occurrences which accompany Antigone's second attempt to bury the body (at least with a cover of dust) that she is indeed favored by the gods, that she is doing the right thing while Kreon is doing the wrong thing. When she is broug
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