What goes up, must come down. This can often apply to characters in literature. In the tragedy Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon, a hard headed, recently crowned king loses everything he holds dear. Creon’s stubborn pride leads him to make a series of regrettable decisions that have catastrophic consequences for his people, his family, and himself. His blindness to his rank and status as king suggests that he let his morals get the best of him, from what was actually morally right. Initially, by the
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In this case this quote can relate to Antigone. It relates to her life because she strongly believes that her bond towards her brother is stronger than any law. She has the necessity to honor her brother and give him a dignified funeral. Now, did Antigone deserve her fate or no? She didn’t deserve her fate. Antigone didn’t deserve her fate because she was just standing up for her moral beliefs and she was trying to defend and honor her brother. Antigone has moral beliefs that she stand for and
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the story of Antigone which can be seen in interactions between Creon and Antigone as well as Antigone and Ismene. Each reacts to Antigone’s death sentence following her illegal burial of her brother and he or she shares his or her respective view regarding her punishment. Each individual has his or her own unique beliefs about how justice is be served regarding this particular situation. Thus the theme of justice prevails in the interactions between the selected characters. Antigone is strong-willed
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Antigone is a play about a woman named Antigone. She is part of the royal family in Thebes and her brothers died fighting each other over the crown. Creon, Antigone’s father in law, has said that her brother, Polyneices, is a traitor to the city and will not be buried and anywho break this law will die. Antigone breaks the law anyway and is locked away to die. Haimon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiance, tries to change his father’s mind, but it didn’t work. When Creon did realize that he was wrong
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In the play Antigone written by Sophocles, Creon is the tragic hero. Creon was a king. His tragic flaw was that he has too much pride and this causes a downfall for him. Creon will not listen to anyone. He is very stubborn and he doesn’t notice that he might be doing the wrong thing. Creon said, “Let him do, or dream to do, more than a man can. He shall not save these girls from death” (i.628-629). Creon said this because he is making sure no one will help the girls because they did a bad thing in
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In Sophocles’s play Antigone Creon produces the law stating no one is allowed to bury the body of the fallen soldier, Polyneices because of his traitory towards the state. Directly defying that law, Antigone portrays civil disobedience by burying the body and performing rites. Antigone’s unpeaceful approach to what she thinks is an unjust law is what renders the civil disobedience ineffective. The stubborn tone in Antigone’s voice and unwillingness
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In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the character Antigone is a tragic hero because she risk her life just to buried her brother polynices, Antigone is also courageous because she will do whatever it take to buried her brother,she is also loving because she is willing to disobey King Creon so she could buried her brother. tigone Sophocles
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negative consequences. The consequences can include close people to you becoming irritated because you are unwilling to listen their perspectives. Sophocles, two thousand five hundred years earlier, explores this idea through Antigone and Kreon in his play Antigone. Antigone, a girl who is wholeheartedly devoted to her family, decides that her love for her family is more important than abiding by the law. Kreon, a King who is profoundly invested to his state, decides that his duties
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Oedipus the King and Creon in “Antigone” had many characteristics that led to their downfalls. Both men showed similar characteristics throughout the two stories. Oedipus’s characteristics that led to his downfall and ultimately his death was his pride and determination. Creon’s characteristics that led to his downfall and left him all alone at the end of the story was his pride and stubbornness. These characteristics are not a bad characteristic to have but when you can’t let go of them they will
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Min Hyuk Lee 10/27/2014 Throughout the course of the Greek tragedy, Antigone, one can not only observe the conflict and struggle between the characters, but can clearly discern the clash between two widely differing concepts. Antigone, the cursed daughter of Oedipus and the mourning sister of Polyneices and Ismene, continues to collide with the King Creon for what she believes to be the right thing to do. Antigone is desperate to give her brother the rightful burial that she believes he deserves
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