The relationship between father and son is like water and fire. Fire being Creon father of Haemon being the water. Power hungry fire Creon sparks in power. A small flame but quickly grows into a forest fire that no amount of water can stop it. Whatever Haemon suggest doing what's right, Creon promptly burns through his opinion like it didn’t faze fire when water touches just a hiss of the evaporating allying with Haemon assumptions.
The play of Antigone by Sophocles depicts how both tragedy of the hero’s. How Antigone by respecting her brother and buried him with honours and not letting him not be disrespected in death. By not following Creon rules and laws he seals her up in the cave with enough food to survive long enough to die by her own hands. At the she downs commit suicide Haemon being informed about her death
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is outraged and attacks his dad misses and decides to stab himself instead and dies. Creon being too stubborn to notice him family dying one by one. His misogynist mind turns him into a tragic hero his only flaw. Politics, for example, these days people pick in fear for the own safety like there choosing Donald Trump for national security. Some people might not do good with a lot of power in their palm. And make bad mistakes. Stubbornness, selfish, Arrogant, The life of the typical tragic hero is characterized by time spent in his/her story, and how their traits play out on to the end. The stubborn old man never listens to anyone especially when it's helpful advice. “They shake their heads and have not kept their necks under my yoke, as they are duty bound to do if they were men who are content with me.” He doubts everything people do because he has no trust. Nobody deserves to be equal than him. One of his flaws. Twice guilty, having sold thy soul for gain No money equals the loyalty of the state towards the person or victim. Getting rich is not better than loyalty towards the king and his people. The guard comes in with bad news that the body was buried when he was taking a break and Creon believes that he was bribed turning a blind for some amount of money. At the end of all this Creon, he threatens the guard and gives him one more chance to catch the traitor in the act. Through all this talk the guard is talking in a honours tone that's why Creon does not believe in the guard. Arrogant when the guard brings the traitor he caught and still doesn’t believe but as he said ‘bring in the man who did this’ Antigone enters the scene.` Pride has no place in anyone who is his neighbour’s slave.
He’s too prideful and doesn’t give any respect to his enemies.
And since he made a new enemy that day he lost all respect towards his family of ladies, and can’t keep anyone trust in the family circle.
The strongest iron tempered in the fire to make it really hard that’s the kind you see most often shatter.
Anything that you think wouldn't happen. Happens to someone you least guess. Like Antigone burying the body.
The gods are testing Creon and how he would react to this event happen to someone in his own family.
Would Creon be easy on Antigone and spare her our punish her by death.
Selfish he shows that when he sentenced Antigone to exile and seal her off to death by her own terms
''For it’s a joy escaping troubles which affect oneself, but painful to bring evil on one’s friends.But all that is of less concern to me.''
He doesn’t care about nobody in the world except himself and only him if someone dies it doesn't affect
him. Denies anything that comes to him and doesn’t regret nothing. As far as she’s concerned, we bear no guilt. But she’s lost her place living here with us. Nobody is gonna is bothered about Antigone death. Creon and the chorus don’t bear any guilt because technically they didn't kill her. Haemon decided to strike his father and miss but really didn’t and the knife was meant for himself because he refused to live without Antigone. They're good leaders and wise ones In the American government system people can impeach bad presidents if they don't like them. At the end, Creon becomes the tragic hero losing Antigone and Haemon but shows no guilt for their death caused from him or concerns. But people can grab power and rise it wrong like when you see a weapon in a public area then there's mass panic that person with the weapon now rules with fear. But it’s the same when a police rule with fear in the same way.
Human emotions and beliefs can be some of the most powerful and forceful factors in the world. They can often time cause humans to overlook their moral and civil duties and instead confront the demands of a private passion. Two people that have contrasting views about passion and responsibility can cause a major conflict which could cause a “classic war” in literature. In the play Antigone, the differences in Antigone and Creon’s passions and responsibilities helps Sophocles illustrate their central flaws. By doing so, the playwright implies that one needs to achieve a balance of passion and responsibility in order to maintain a sense if inner peace and political stability.
Creon's insecurity blinds his ability to direct order in his country properly. After Antigone buried Polyneices Creon felt he needed to take a strong stand or people would think he would always be lenient toward criminals. However, to achieve this Creon felt he needed to take drastic action against Antigone. He once even said to his son, Haimon, who was about to marry Antigone, "The woman dies. I suppose she'll plead family ties. Well, let her. If I permit my own family to rebel, how shall I earn the world's obedience?" (19) This quote shows that Creon feels that to prove himself to the country he needs to earn the "world's obedience".
One way Haemon highlights Creon as a tragic hero is when Haemon
In the Antigone, unlike the Oedipus Tyrannus, paradoxically, the hero who is left in agony at the end of the play is not the title role. Instead King Creon, the newly appointed and tyrannical ruler, is left all alone in his empty palace with his wife's corpse in his hands, having just seen the suicide of his son. However, despite this pitiable fate for the character, his actions and behavior earlier in the play leave the final scene evoking more satisfaction than pity at his torment. The way the martyr Antigone went against the King and the city of Thebes was not entirely honorable or without ulterior motives of fulfilling pious concerns but it is difficult to lose sight of the fact that this passionate and pious young woman was condemned to living imprisonment.
as not believing his son, Haemon, when Haemon informs his father of the reputation he
The gods cause Creon's destruction, acting in a just and logical way to the blasphemous deeds he committed. His destruction is very much in his own hands, despite the many warnings he receives from advisors such as Tiresias ("you have no business with the dead"), Haemon ("I see my father offending justice - wrong") and the Chorus ("could this possibly the work of the gods?" "good advice, Creon, take it now, you must"). He drives head long into it, ignoring those who counsel him. His inability to listen to others is very critical to his downfall, as we see in his rebukes to the Sentry for example ("Still talking? You talk too much!"). This is a fundamental weakness within his character. His stubbornness, as Tiresias, "brands you for stupidity". What appears in Creon's own eyes to be stern control ove...
Despite its prevalence, suffering is always seen an intrusion, a personal attack on its victims. However, without its presence, there would never be anyway to differentiate between happiness and sadness, nor good and evil. It is encoded into the daily lives people lead, and cannot be avoided, much like the prophecies described in Antigone. Upon finding out that he’d murdered his father and married his mother,
... After hearing the fate of his wife, Creon laments that he is to blame:
Haemon creates an illusion when around his father, causing the confusion on how Haemon feels. This distraction of Antigone, causes Creon’s anger to go towards his son who is giving a good reason to stop Antigone’s punishment. The loyalty Haemon shows towards Antigone angers his father Creon. Creon sees his son’s love towards this woman and calls Haemon a women.
though she was the daughter of his sister, Jocasta. Creon believes that if he does not
Haemon’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character by Haemon’s loyalty to keeping his father alive. We see evidence from the text when Haemon says, “Father I’m yours. For me your judgments and the ways you act on them are good – I shall follow them” (Lines 720-722) This evidence supports my claim because Haemon is saying no matter what you do I will help you with that decision until you or I die.
Creon in the play of Antigone by Sophocles plays a major role within the play. Antigone also plays an important role, as these two character’s conflicting views led to utter disaster, which highlights Creon as a tragic figure. Within the play Creon attempted to establish decisions for the common good; however, his decisions resulted in tragedy.
Aristotle's view on a tragic hero is someone that would have to be held in high standards (royalty) in order to evoke compassion and anxiety in the audience. Creon and Antigone are royalty and share the most important aspect of a tragic hero, each have a tragic flaw. Both of the two characters have an inability to compromise or even reason with. Antigone's tragic flaw was amplified by her loyalty for her brother; she acted irrational, in not taking preparation or thoroughness into consideration when burying her brother. Further more when confronted by Creon, himself she disrespected and basically told him to silence himself because his words were "distasteful" to her. So then sealing her death by becoming an immediate martyr for the wrong cause... anything against Creon's will.
His immediate family is precious and he would kill to protect it. “There’s nothin’ he could do that I wouldn’t forgive. Because he’s my son. Because I’m his father and he’s my son”(p.425). He goes further, “Nothin’s bigger than that.
because he scare that it will bring more troubles to him and his beloved one.