Effects Of Power In Antigone

When people are given or think that they have power it can easily be abused and be used to do only bad and to control or dominate people. In the same way Creon used his power to control someone people like the Las Vegas Shooter used the power he thought he had by owning a gun to control a scene and make a very violent place. Power can have a negative effect on people by causing fear and violence throughout a society.

In the book Antigone by Sophocles, Creon used his power of being King negatively by creating fear the Sentry and used that fear to control him. Creon threatened the sentry that if he could not find who had buried Eteocles he would torture him until he died. This obviously scared him and the Sentry even mentioned how the rest

of the city would have told the King that it was not the Sentry who buried Eteocles too if they weren’t all so scared of speaking to him. When a person has this amount of power it is easy for them to use it for bad and to force people to do things because they are so scared about what a person with this much power can do against them.
Similarly to how Creon abused his power to make people afraid; people like the Las Vegas shooter used the power they thought they had of owning a gun and used it negatively to create a violent scene. When people have that temporary power of owning a gun it can all go to their head and things like this horrible incident can happen. There is news of events like these happening all the time, all similar in the way that these people used the power of having a weapon and used it cause harm against innocent people. People repeatedly use their power to intentionally cause violence to people who don't deserve it and to feel in control of a situation.