Antigone And Creon Loyalty

Antigone takes place just after a war between Antigone’s two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices. Eteocles fought on the side of Thebes whereas Polynices resembled an invader. Afterwards, Eteocles is buried and seen as honorable. However, Polynices is denied a proper burial because he is considered a traitor to Thebes. In this play, Sophocles uses Antigone and Creon as foils by characterizing Antigone as a martyr and Creon as a tyrant to urge the reader to realize that one’s own morals are more significant than the decrees of any government.

Her determination to honor the deceased led to her eternal rest. The play Antigone by Sophocles is a tragedy about a young woman named Antigone whose brother died in combat and was not permitted to be buried by the king. This leads Antigone to bury her brother and face the wrath of the king’s punishment. After Antigone’s death, fate changes for Creon, the king, when he loses all of his family members for going against the laws of the gods. As the eponymous character of the play Antigone, Antigone breaks Creon’s law by burying her brother and is sentenced to death, even if it were her uncle’s decree. Nevertheless, the character Creon suffers a fate far worse than death for upholding a law he had set up. The role of family ties in Antigone is

     Creon and Antigone also demonstrated a similarity in their loyalty to their own views. They both had different views, but they both remained loyal to them throughout the entire play. Creon and Antigone did not give in to others’ views, but relied on their own for survival. Creon was extremely loyal to his laws that he had made, and Antigone was loyal to her beliefs. Nothing was going to change either of them. When Antigone was brought in by the sentry, Creon was disturbed to find out Antigone was the person burying Polynices. He was extremely upset

Throughout the whole play, Creon has not kept himself from showing his unruly attitude towards all the characters about his decisions for the people. There were many occasions in

First off, Ismene, Antigone’s sister, actually was the one that incited Antigone's actions that led to everything else that happened in the story. Without Ismene, there would not be a plot. In lines 52-59, Ismene said to Antigone “What? You'd bury him— when a law forbids the city?” Antigone replied “Yes! He is my brother and—deny it as you will—your brother too. No one will ever convict me for a traitor.” Ismene said “So desperate, and Creon has expressly—” and Antigone interrupted with “He has no right to keep me from my own.” Here Ismene is telling Antigone that her actions are not something that are legal and that comply with Creon’s laws. Antigone, being hard-headed, decides that she is not going to let a law determine what she does for

“Tell me briefly—not in some lengthy speech— were you aware there was a proclamation forbidding what you did?” (503-505). The actions, context of Antigone’s words, and also the ideas she proposed, very indepthly contrasted with Creon’s character. Thus resulting in there being a verbal confrontation between the two characters. The conflict between the two caused conflicting motivations such as stubbornness, disrespect, and anger to be projected with Creon’s character. Ultimately, these conflicting motivations develop Creon as a tragic hero by portraying that he knew, the decisions he made were of error, and the character interactions advance the plot by causing conflict throughout the play. Creon had also begun to change throughout the play,

Creon also demonstrates loyalty as one of his defining characteristics; however, contrary to Beowulf, Creon's loyalty is not seen as virtuous. Rather, his staunchness is seen as extreme and harsh. His loyalty to himself and his own opinions on matters sets up quite a predicament with Antigone, who feels that his actions are a result of selfish loyalty, and therefore sinful (p228). The extreme measures that Creon takes to keep anyone from honoring the body of Polyneices shows that he feels the brother dishonored Creon's country. In Creon's eyes, this sin is

Antigone is a play written by Sophocles. The genre of the play that Sophocles wrote was based on tragedy. It is one of the first plays that use tragedy. In the play a young girl named Antigone, stands up against her uncle Creon who is the king. She stands up for her rights, so that she can give a religious burial to Polynices. She was a girl with a lot of will power. This essay talks about the relationship between Antigone and Creon. This essay would contain paragraphs where there would be comparisons between Antigone and Creon’s Relationship.

Sophocles’ play Antigone suggest that loyalty is the center of the decisions that the people make. There are two types of loyalty in the play: loyalty to the state and loyalty to religion. The conflict arises when loyalty to the state law interferes with the spiritual law. The king of Thebes, Creon, has decided that a man by the name of Polyneices shall not be given a proper burial due to the fact that he betrayed the state. His sister, Antigone, strongly disagrees with this logic and believes that the king should not be the one who decides whether his soul is accepted into the afterlife or not. The influence of loyalty when making decisions is shown when Antigone explains to her sister that she is going to bury her brother, through the conversation Antigone and Creon have after she is caught, and the argument that Creon has with his son about the burial of Polyneices.

The protagonist in  a story makes key decisions, experiences consequences for those decisions, and affects the circumstances of the story. In the Greek tragedy Antigone Creon displays being the protagonist. Creon in the play made a key decision to place a decree. He affected the circumstances by deciding to punish Antigone for her actions and he experienced consequences for those decision resulting in unexpected deaths. Creon demonstrates being the protagonist based on making key decisions, experiencing consequences, and affecting the circumstances.

The qualifications of a tragic hero vary between Aristotle and Shakespeare. Aristotle thinks of a tragic hero as someone who is a noble character by choice and makes his/her own destiny, while Shakespeare sees a tragic hero as someone who is born of nobility and born to be important. Although both tragic hero's end in a tragic death that effects many people, not all tragic hero's fit perfectly into both categories. In Sophocles’ Antigone, Creon is considered a tragic hero. Creon follows Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero by being a noble character by choice, having important potential, and falls due to "miscalculations" with circumstances that are beyond control.

In Sophocles tragedy Antigone, there is a conflict between family members and the trust they have for each other. One of the main characters Creon shows great loyalty to not only his people but also his family. Creon is the new king of Thebes and the uncle to Antigone and Ismene. Creon also has gave a new decree that no one is to bury Polyneices or they will be branded a traitor and will be put to death. Creon might not be the best of kings but his openness toward his people and the willingness to do whatever needs to be done to save his people is why he is the one with the loyalty.

The other similarity between these two characters is the need to go ‘one up’ on their predecessor. Creon is the new king and desperate to make himself feared and respected, George W Bush,

One song that I thought related to my claim was the song “Anytime You Need a Friend.” In this song, Mariah Carey sings, “When the shadows are closing in, And your spirit is diminishing, Just remember you’re not alone.” Mariah Carey talks about darkness overcoming a person but tells them that they just have to remember they aren’t alone. In Antigone, Creon summons Antigone and Ismene to his palace so that he can send them to their death. Although Ismene is innocent, she was not going to let Antigone go through it alone and was going to die along with her.

Antigone is a play that was written in ancient Greece by the playwright Sophocles. It is the third play in a trilogy of tragedies about the city-state of Thebes, revolving around Oedipus Rex. Antigone starts the day after a civil war fought between the two sons of Oedipus Rex after his death. The civil war ended in death for both brothers, so their uncle, Creon, assumed the role of King of Thebes. The main conflict of the play begins when Creon gives one brother, Eteocles, a burial with honors, but passes a law forbidding a burial for the other brother, Polyneices with the penalty of death. One of the sisters of Eteocles and Polyneices, Antigone disagrees with this law, and decides to bury Polyneices, resulting in Creon sentencing Antigone to death. A conflict emerges between Antigone and Creon, who appear to be opposites. However, despite Antigone and Creon’s different stances on law, they are ultimately more similar than different because of their shared value of loyalty and their shared characteristic, hubris.