Sentry

     I believe the Sentry's role in the story is supposed to complete and unbiased truth.  The Sentry comes to Creon to let him know that the man that he said was to be disgraced and not buried or mourned was in fact taken and given a burial.  He was the bearer of bad news in this situation and once he told Creon the information Creon became enraged.  However this did not stop the Sentry from questioning Creon's source of pain.  He said "Is it the ache in your ears or in your mind?" To ask a harsh ruler such a question in the mist of his rage shows one who allows the truth to serve as a guide without consequence.  To me the Sentry serves as the voice of reason and comes from a rational state of mind.  What confuses me is that initially he states he did not see who did the crime but then late stated "She is the one I saw burying the dead man you forbade the burial of" and continues to give a detail account of what he seen.  I came to understand after that the sentry is more than one man they just share the title   All in all I still believe that the sentry is the person that delivers the truth by asking the logical questions that aren't emotion based. Even when he delivered Antigone to Creon he described her human emotion and reaction to seeing her brother naked in the forest what he says in line 480 is basically telling Creon there was an emotional attachment in the "crime" and even tho it was the breaking of the rule he says " Now, my lord take her and as you please judge her and test her; I am just free and clear of this trouble.  He is telling Creon do what you feel you need to do but he won't agree with it,  The sentry is speaking nothing but wisdom in this piece,