Antigone In Oedipus The King

The Government: the system that benefits and praises the conformist and submissive, yet strikes down the insurgents; those who dare question or challenge its, sometimes, unjust policies. A government is defined as a group of people that governs a community or unit. Nonetheless, any government depends on a leader to guide them to the seemingly correct path, whether it is a president, king, queen, prime minister, among others. Indeed, some people may see this leader as a sort figurehead, someone who has no real authority or power in the government. Despite this, most people trust this leader, believing that he or she will make the right decisions and lead them to greatness. Even though, in some occasions, this is accurate, it is not always true.

Here, the reader is told the story of Antigone’s father, Oedipus, his rise to power and what led to his tragic downfall; whereas, this is not relevant to the topic of our essay either. “Oedipus Rex” is imperative to this essay because it allows the reader to see Creon in a different light than in “Antigone” and “La pasión según Antígona Pérez”, allowing them to better analyze and, perhaps, understand his tyrannical actions. In this play, Creon seems to be a completely different person than in both of the previous plays, seeming to be a very good-natured man, who’s both kind and patient, and tries to do what is best for the kingdom and the people in it. Henceforth, this makes the reader ask the question: what event transpired between these plays that turned Creon from the seemingly perfect character from “Oedipus Rex”, to the evil tyrant from “Antigone” and “La pasión según Antígona Pérez”? Admittedly, his actions in both of the later plays were malevolent and antagonistic, however, perhaps Creon was not an evil character after all. In “Oedipus Rex”, Creon states that he would not like to be the king of Thebes, due to the fact that he already had the same power as a king, yet, without the pressures of the title, as can be seen in this

Admittedly, in most occasions, it is beneficial to the world and the way it functions, providing it with a leader and group of people that make helpful decisions for the wellbeing of the nation. In spite of this, as can be seen in the earlier analysis, it is also an inequitable system that only helps those that are too afraid to question its sometimes corrupt policies. In fact, around the world, political corruptness is a much more common practice than what the government wants its people to realize. To be able to combat this, during history, many people have tried to stand up against these nefarious governments and, most often than not, achieved some type of change. For example, Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for the government to give African-Americans equal rights, Mahatma Ghandi who was the primordial leader in the Indian independence movement, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who tried to topple the tyranny set by Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, and Nelson Mandela, a South African revolutionary leader who, as a matter of fact, became the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Even though all of these illustrious revolutionary figures lived in different parts of the world, they all had something in common: they all saw a major flaw in the decisions that their government was making and decided to take matters into their own hands and make a