Imagine to burry your own dead brother. What would you do? In this play Antigone is a women who did anything to honor her deceased brother. Even though she knew severe consequences she would face for reading creon's proclamation toward the burial of her brother. Rules and orders. In the play Antigone and Creon is shown to be a tragic hero through his interaction with Creon. This develops the theme of the play by these tragic flaws of misjudgement.
One of Creon’s traits that develops the play is that creon is arrogant. For example in the play Antigone, Creon said in line (324-326) “Stop now before what you're about to say enrages me completely and reveals that you're not old but your stupid too”.This shows that Creon is a tragic hero because
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Nothing. With that i have everything”.This example shows that in the story that Creon is arrogant to antigone because of Creon’s power .Creon is very arrogant about his power and uses it in every way that it harms the citizens of thebes. For example line (324) “stop now before what you're about to say enrages me completely and reveals that you're not only old but stupid too”This is yet another reason why Creon is so rude and arrogant to Antigone.The way it shows how it proves it is because he is very arrogant to the people.These example show that Creon is a tragic hero because of this …show more content…
He is honoring one with a full funeral and treating the other one disgracefully. Eteocles they say has had his burial according to our customary rites to win him honour with the dead below.This shows that Creon is serious about his laws and want everyone to obey them.Creon does not allow a girl to govern him which is unfair for Antigone to convince him that both brothers should get and a funeral with all the certain types of rituals.For example in line (599-600) Then go down to the dead. If you must love, love them. No woman's going to govern me no no - not while i'm still alive.In the story this shows that Creon is unfair to Antigone and Ismene because Creon was only going to get one funeral for one person and the other person would have to suffer.Another reason why Creon is very unfair is because on line (498) you there you with the face bent down toward the ground, What do you say?Do you deny you did this or admit it?That explains that Creon is unfair because he only gives Antigone two bad choices to pick from and she has to pick one and she
Creon’s hubris is the strongest case that can be made about Creon being the most tragic character in Antigone. For example, Creon says,”Am I to rule this land at someone else’s whim or by myself?”(Antigone 835-836). This is truly a profound statement that reflects Creon’s excessive self-pride; moreover, Creon refuses to listen to Haemon, the Chorus at some points, and even Theresias for while. Furthermore, Creon refuses to acknowledge that he has done wrong of any kind, and this eventually leads to the death of his entire family. In conclusion, this is why Creon is the most tragic character in this play.
In Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, two characters undergo character changes. During the play the audience sees these two characters' attitudes change from close-minded to open-minded. It is their close-minded, stubborn attitudes, which lead to their decline in the play, and ultimately to a series of deaths. In the beginning Antigone is a close minded character who later becomes open minded. After the death of her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, Creon becomes the ruler of Thebes. He decides that Eteocles will receive a funeral with military honors because he fought for his country. However, Polyneices, who broke his exile to " spill the blood of his father and sell his own people into slavery", will have no burial. Antigone disagrees with Creon's unjust actions and says, " Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way." She vows to bury her brother so that his soul may gain the peace of the underworld. Antigone is torn between the law placed against burying her brother and her own thoughts of doing what she feels should be done for her family. Her intent is simply to give her brother, Polyneices, a proper burial so that she will follow "the laws of the gods." Antigone knows that she is in danger of being killed for her actions and she says, "I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me." Her own laws, or morals, drive her to break Creon's law placed against Polyneices burial. Even after she realizes that she will have to bury Polyneices without the help of her sister, Ismene, she says: Go away, Ismene: I shall be hating you soon, and the dead will too, For your words are hateful. Leave me my foolish plan: I am not afraid of the danger; if it means death, It will not be the worst of deaths-death without honor. Here Ismene is trying to reason with Antigone by saying that she cannot disobey the law because of the consequences. Antigone is close-minded when she immediately tells her to go away and refuses to listen to her. Later in the play, Antigone is sorrowful for her actions and the consequences yet she is not regretful for her crime. She says her crime is just, yet she does regret being forced to commit it.
" This indicates Creon’s decision to punish Antigone was not taken kindly by the gods, but his ego wouldn't allow him to solve that as shown by Haemon, which, again, contribute to his nemesis. This proves by how Creon’s stubbornness isn't liked by the gods establishing him as a tragic
In the play Antigone, created by Sophocles Antigone is a foil to Creon because their personalities contrast. This makes Creon a Tragic Hero because he thinks that he is a god but in reality he is a mortal upsetting the god's and he will eventually meet his demise. At the start of the play the reader is introduced to a character named Creon, who is the king of Thebes, the previous king, Eteocles, was killed by his brother Polyneices. There is a law arranged by Creon, so nobody could bury the body of Polyneices but Antigone, the sister of both Eteocles and Polyneices, wants to bury her brother and is willing to risk her life to bury him. She eventually gets caught and is sentenced to death by Creon.
Creon's pride is that of a tyrant. He is inflexible and unyielding, unwilling throughout the play to listen to advice or Antigone. Creon’s love for the city-state cause him to abandon all other beliefs. He tries to enforce this upon the people of Thebes. He wants them to think that his laws should be followed before any other personal, moral, or religious belief. This is where the conflict of character occurs between Antigone and Creon. Antigone knows that the sacred laws held by heaven are far more important...
Of the tragic figures in Antigone, Creon is the most obviously evil because his motives are self-serving and his fate the worst. As the play begins, we learn that Antigone has defied Creon's royal decree by performing sacred burial rites for her exiled brother, Polyneices. Polyneices has been declared an enemy of the state by Creon. The sentence for anyone attempting to bury him is death by stoning.
Antigone, as a character, is extremely strong-willed and loyal to her faith. Creon is similarly loyal, but rather to his homeland, the city of Thebes, instead of the gods. Both characters are dedicated to a fault, a certain stubbornness that effectively blinds them from the repercussions of their actions. Preceding the story, Antigone has been left to deal with the burden of her parents’ and both her brothers’ deaths. Merely a young child, intense grief is to be expected; however, Antigone’s emotional state is portrayed as frivolous when it leads her to directly disobey Creon’s orders. She buries her brother Polynices because of her obedience to family and to the gods, claiming to follow “the gods’ unfailing, unwritten laws” (Sophocles 456-457). CONTINUE
Creon does not learn a lesson from Oedipus' accusatory behavior. Instead he adapts this bad personality trait. Throughout Antigone, he accuses everyone who tries to give him advice of betraying him. Whereas, in Oedipus, he is falsely accused by Oedipus of trying to take over the throne. This paper will compare and contrast his behavior and evaluate if he learned anything from one play to the next.
Antigone is a strong willed character who is not afraid to defend her beliefs. After learning that Creon has denied Polyneices of a proper burial she uses her free will to decide that she must lay her brother to rest, as she strongly believes he should be honored like the other fallen soldiers. Unable to
The ending of the story was greatly influenced by Creon’s unwise choices from the very beginning. One of his firsts acts as king is to refuse the burial of Polyneices. The Greeks believe in the power of the Gods, and the necessity of a proper burial for a soul to be at peace. Instead of setting an example of Polyneices, this only makes the people question him more, especially because they believe Antigone’s crime was honorable, and utterly right in the eyes of the Gods. Creon did not settle for just denying him a grave however. He also disposed of the body in an extremely disrespectful way. “...Polyneices, I say, is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for him. He shall lie on the plain, unburied; and the birds and the scavenging dogs can do with him what they like”(i.820)Sophocles. Leaving a man for the animals to feed on is an awful thing to do to anyone; it would have been a surprise if someone had not have been of angry about this fate. This path was only chosen because of his want to show how the government is always in the right, and set an example of those who break the law. He only just came on the throne- coincidentally because of Polyneices, so he needed someone to make an example o...
Throughout Antigone by Sophocles, Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has show how he abuses his power and how he seems to think he is always right no matter what argument against his word that is in the right is brought up to him. Near the end of Antigone he finally sees the error in his ways and tries to change it but it was too late. Although Creon is somewhat likeable and worthy of respect as a character (that is, although we somewhat feel sympathy for him), Creon is largely an unsympathetic and unlikeable person.
How he insults people because they said or did something he didn’t like. On lines 324-326, Creon insults the Chorus Leader by saying, “Stop now-before what you’re about to say enrages me completely and reveals that you’re not only old but stupid, too.” In this quote, Creon insults the Chorus Leader because he said a reasonable thing that Creon doesn’t want to believe, so instead of ignoring him or at least think about it, he insults him like a child. Also in this quote, Creon is once again not taking advice, it’s worse this time because not taking advice from a young man is reasonable sometimes, but the Chorus Leader is wise and older than Creon. On lines 600-601 Creon says to Antigone, “ No woman’s going to govern me-no, no-not while I’m still alive. In this quote, Creon is not only sexist but childish. The way he said this quote was like a child saying he doesn’t want to share. Also in this quote, we see Creon lose his mind a little bit, he is pushing and insulting everyone away. Antigone may have betrayed him, but he is the one making everyone hate him. Creon once again has shown us how tragic he really is. He has become a tragic hero, kind of like every bad guy. He has pushed people away, acted rudely, insulted everyone, and even acted worse than a toddler. Now he can spend the rest of his life as a tragic hero all
Creon's trait of being a good person is a key factor in his tragic hero personality and makes his downfall even more dramatic. Creon does what he thinks is best for his nation of thebes by having the guards “take them away and guard them well” (p.62, L.10). The guards take Antigone to the vault to die and set Ismene free. Creon also tries to do good by being the one who “Will set her free” (p.75, L.24) because he is the one who made the wrong choice and put her in the vault first. Creon being a good person is just one trait that makes him a tragic hero, another trait is him being lifelike.
The play “Antigone” by Sophocles is about how a girl named Antigone who was determined to bury her brother Polynices because the law in Thebes who was ruled by her uncle known as King Creon said that you weren’t allowed to bury or honor people who was a traitor to the city and yet a prophet claimed a very powerful vision that would later hurt Creon for making that type of law. The theme in Antigone was to open your ears and listen to others, take advice from others because if they did, there would have been no chaos and nobody could have died. Despite these differences, Antigone and Creon are still similar in many ways in that they both are loyal, determined, and stubborn.
Ismene's indecisiveness and lack of action is starkly contrasted with the actions and beliefs of Creon and Antigone, the characters who are most often thought of as the victims. For Antigone, the punishment that characterizes her as a victim is the sacrifice of her life for her personal beliefs about the honor and duty associated with family ties. Antigone's death at the end of the play illustrates the fact that she is willing to die as long as she knows that her brother has received proper burial rites. On the other side there is Creon, who can be thought of as a stubborn and terrible king, but who really is acting just like Antigone, holding onto what he believes firmly in. As Antigone blatantly ignores the laws of the city, and only acts in the direction fulfilling the requirements of holy rites, Creon acts in parallel by ignoring the laws of the divine and only following the laws which as king it is his duty to uphold and preserve. Antigone clearly gives her opinion of the situation, and outlines her values that are so important to her while speaking to her sister. "Be as you choose to be; but for myself I will bury him. It will be good to die, so doing. I shall lie by his side, loving him as he loved me; I shall be a criminal-but a religious one." (Line 82-87)