Antigone Creon Pride Analysis

“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,

In the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, King Creon created a law that denied proper burial rites to anyone who invaded or betrayed the city of Thebes. Antigone defied this law by burying her brother, Polynices, after he was harshly accused of being a traitor. Both Creon and Antigone showed a tenacious passion toward their perception of justice, unwilling to accept that honoring the law and honoring the individual conscience were both justified in different ways. The stubbornness that they shared led them both to meet their downfalls, which conveyed the idea that being too proud to accept guidance from others ultimately leads to dire consequences.

Imagine knowing that both your brothers have lost their lives due to foolish decisions. The man who comes to power in place of them decides that only one of them is worthy of a proper burial. One of them is glorified and the other is left to be eaten by animals as he is thought to be a traitor. Being one of the last in your line you decide to take it upon yourself to respect the laws of the gods and honor your brother. In Antigone, a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles , Antigone faces the consequences of defying mans law in order to follow the laws of the gods.

Many believe that the divine word holds more power than man, Antigone is one of these people and hold the divines laws higher than man's laws. On the other hand, Creon believes that holding power is the way of life and tries to uphold his laws over the deity laws. Creon does this when the brothers Polyneices and Eteocles kill each other and Polyneices is designated as a traitor. Creon decides to prohibit the people from burying Polyneices properly and follow the god's law to prevent more rebellions. Antigone on the other hand believes that a Creon's law holds no power over her from giving a proper burial. As Antigone is talking to Ismene she states "No one shall say I failed him! I will bury my brother -- and yours too, if you will not"( Sophocles ). This statement shows

Pride is the cause of the main conflict in Sophocles’ play, Antigone. Everyone should have pride, but Creon had too much of it and that blinded him. His pride in his power and abuse of authority was his tragic flaw that ultimately led to his downfall. On the other hand, Antigone takes pride in her beliefs and has the courage to speak out for what she thinks is right. For this, Antigone is seen as an honorable character and the hero of the play. It is shown that there are often two sides to things; pride can be both a source of strength and self-destruction.

Creon left Antigone in the tomb when he told the guards to ‘’take her to that vault and leave her alone’’ to let her choose death herself. In order to,not let Creon or his soldiers have the blame for her death. Therefore Creon wanted to resemble Antigone’s death as the punishment for anyone who was against Creon’s law. While, if he choose to stone her to death it wouldn’t end in silence. Along with, both Creon and his soldiers have the responsibility of her death. However, creon left her saying ‘’if she lives or dies,that is her choice, not ours’’.

The Laws of Tradition are more important than The Laws of the state. Antigone has a choice to break the law of her religion or break the law of Creon. Her religion would say that it is against the law to not bury polyneices but it would be against Creon’s law to bury polyneices. The laws of the gods are more important to Antigone than the laws of Creon. Antigone wants Ismene to go with her to bury their brother, but Ismene doesn’t want to Creon to kill her.

Antigone and Creon adhere to different value systems, Antigone’s religiously rooted values versus Creon’s politically centered life. Creon displayed the very legalist perspective of classical leaders, the belief that following through with civil law and enforcing strict punishments would maintain a prosperous society. Polynices, the unburied brother of Antigone, fought against Thebes which made him undeserving of a grave. Creon, being closed minded towards anarchists, lashed out before he could foresee the end result. ”Anarchy!- show me a greater crime in all the earth!” (751-52). After watching the fall of Oedipus’ power, Creon endorses and insists upon strict laws to prevent anyone like Antigone to speak out against him. Antigone’s actions

A tragedy, as defined by Ms. Tozar, is “the story of a falling from a high place to a lower place by a character.” In other words, a tragedy is a story of an individual who starts in a high position and descends throughout the story to end in a position that is lower than original position. The individual who makes the descent is known as the tragic hero. The tragic hero, as defined by Ms. Tozar, is “the character who falls from grace as a result of fate and/or a weakness. In the drama, Antigone by Sophocles, one could argue that there are many tragic heroes. However, the one who stands above them all is that of the character of Creon. Creon is understood by most as the tragic hero in Antigone as evident in his

In Sophocles play Antigone, he describes the conflict between Antigone the daughter of the former king and Creon the present King. We will discuss the reason for this conflict and why it was such an issue especially in their time. We will also see how their conflict can apply to our society and any issues that we may confront today. After the death of both Antigone’s brothers due to a fight for the throne, Creon father of Antigone’s fiancé declared himself King.

The play Antigone has many complex and some not so complex characters and that is what makes it very easy to create juxtapositions within and throughout the play. Creon was a very basic character in the beginning of the play and proved to be a simple character that believed in one thing that created conflicts. Others added on and together that is where dialogue in the play fills in empty spaces in the play. Conflicts are what makes this play more interesting to the reader. The biggest contrasting character is Creon because of the conflict that he has with Antigone.

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.

Pride is considered one of the most relevant themes in the story of Antigone. In Antigone, Sophocles describes pride, not as the state of being proud, but as that which allows men to create laws that substitute for religious principles. This is shown through many different examples throughout the story. For example, when Creon creates a law he believes is divine will then that is the ultimate display of pride. He can never create a law that is equal to or above divine right. As a result of that when Tiresias comes with the news that Creon will suffer, Creon realizes that he has made a terrible mistake but will not admit it. Creon's pride gets him to turn Polyneices into a bad person in other people’s eyes, even though he is guilty of the same crime. When Creon makes a law that no one could bury Polynecies body it is violating religious law. Creon himself is too prideful to realize that he himself is a criminal for making a state law that violates a law of religion. Antigone is prideful in that she does not obey

The bible considers pride as one of its 7 deadly sins, it is the inception of sin and the root of all things evil. This negative view on pride is constant throughout many religions. When one has too much pride or hubris, as the greeks refer to it; they put themselves on the same pedestal as the gods, they do reckless things like challenging them which undoubtedly never turns out good, as gods are immortal beings and are considered above us mortals in all terms. In Antigone, Creon's main reason for his ill-fate is his hubris; it blinded him to such an extent that he became oblivious to all the warnings given to him as he believed he could never do wrong and thus wouldn't give much thought to others with opposing views.

What if both of your brothers had killed one another? In Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, the hero of the story, Antigone, was in this very situation. After one of her brothers, Eteocles, had killed her other brother, Polyneices, Antigone was enraged to learn that the new King, her uncle Creon, had forbidden Polyneices from receiving the proper burial rights as punishment for leading an army against his own country. Additionally, he was giving the traitor Eteocles a proper burial. Antigone decided her brother would not be disrespected in this manner and buried him in secret one night. Creon was furious upon finding he’d been disobeyed, and he knew at once who was responsible. Some say that Antigone should have disobeyed Creon’s edict because she was sticking by her principles and following Greek tradition. However, Antigone should not have disobeyed Creon’s edict because when one is deciding whether to follow one’s principles or whether to follow the law, as in all situations, one must weigh the benefits of doing either. The benefits of obeying Creon outweighed the benefits of disobeying Creon because burying her brother wasn’t the best course of action to give Creon his just deserts, Antigone endangered her own life, and she inadvertently caused the death of several other people.