Comparison Of Antigone And Creon

The conflict between allegiance to the ruler and faithfulness to family honor and the gods is a distressing problem for Creon and Antigone. They each express and are committed to extreme opposite views on where loyalties should be placed. Creon’s strict definition of citizenship calls for the ruler to come first, a commitment to the city’s laws that causes him to believe that Polyneices forfeits burial rights because he attacked the city. Antigone, however, is devoted to the gods and family above obedience to the ruler and believes loyalties to both gods and family outweigh loyalty to the city, and so disobeys Creon and buries her brother. It is the responsibility of all citizens to figure out whether Antigone is guilty or not guilty of the

Have you ever felt like you knew the honorable thing to do, but after doing it, you find that it just made things worse? In Sophocles’s play Antigone, both Antigone and Creon are great examples of a tragic hero who does exactly that. Both have similar weaknesses that lead to their own destruction. However, I believe that the best example of this role is Creon. He made a law to prevent Polyneices from having a burial because of his disloyalty to Thebes; consequently, this decree goes against the laws of the gods. This decision reveals Creon’s hamartia to be that he is too stubborn and narrow-minded for his own good. Moreover, due to this tragic flaw in his personality, he plants the seed that leads to his own downfall.

Have you ever been so prideful or so determined that it leads you to make a decision which later on ends up backfiring on you? In the play Antigone, the characters Antigone and Creon both have conflicting motivations about the recent deaths of Antigone’s brothers, Cytokinesis, and Polyneices, which are also Creon’s nephews. The decision that Creon made about not giving a burial to one of the brothers led to conflicts and to unexpected consequences. Portraying a theme of determination and pride is shown by both of the characters in the play, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Creon the ruler of Thebes. Antigone’s Determination and passion collides with Creon’s misogynistic, arrogance, and his persistence. This causes for trouble to arouse and the development of Creon as a tragic hero.

In the Greek play Antigone writer Sophocles illustrates the clash between the story’s main character Antigone and her powerful uncle, Creon. King Creon of Thebes is an ignorant and oppressive ruler. In the text, there is a prevailing theme of rules and order in which Antigone’s standards of divine justice conflict with Creon’s will as the king. Antigone was not wrong in disobeying Creon, because he was evil and tyrannical. The authors of “Antigone: Kinship, Justice, and the Polis,” and “Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning: Reading Sophocles’ Antigone.” agree with the notion that Antigone performs the role of woman and warrior at once. She does not only what a kinswoman would, but also what a warrior would do.

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.

Despite being very stubborn, this wasn’t Creon’s only hamartia that lead to the downfall of his loved ones, and himself, Creon was also very prideful. When Creon set the law of not burying Polyneices’ body and his niece/soon to be daughter-in-law breaks it, he won’t let her live because he is too prideful. Creon won’t show any mercy even to his family because he has too much pride. Another example of Creon being too prideful is when Creon was talking to Haemon and he told his son that “The state is the king!”(3.107). When Creon is saying this he means that he doesn’t care about his subject’s opinion, in his

Haemon (King Creon's son, pleading for the life of his fiancee and Creon's niece, Antigone, who has violated the king's law: "A State for one man is no State at all." The heart of the tragedy lies in Antigone's free admission that she committed the act she buried her brother's body in disobedience of King Creon's edict that the body was to remain untouched.

Creon declares that Etocles should be buried with full military honors. However, because he is filled with wrath towards Polyneices for being a traitor, he maliciously decided that Polyneices should not be buried. Antigone was filled with piety and wanted to give her brother a proper burial. Therefore, she transgressed Creon's decree and buried her brother despite the fact that Ismene was against it also. A messenger had then told Creon that someone buried the body and he ordered the messenger to find out who it was, and to bring them to him. The guards unburied the body and hid in a vigil state until they caught Antigone burying the body. She was not afraid when she was presented to Creon for trying to reconcile herself for the calamity by

Burying your loved ones is the tradition that you partake in after death right? There are two options that come with this occurrence, but there is never a threatening interference that limits you from even attempting to make the decision. In the tale of Antigone,completing this action twice is a ruthless crime that you absolutely deserved to be punished for. Creon, the man in charge who is subordinately against this crime demands for Antigone to be killed IMMEDIATELY … or else. Antigone, who is passionate in burying her brother because she feels that it is unfair and the absolute right thing to do, pushes forward with her actions. Consequently, Creon is flabbergasted by the women’s actions that are known to be “betrayal to the Gods”, and becomes infuriated. Nonetheless, Antigone’s infringing actions differ greatly from Creon’s which causes him to become cruel, and depenses an uprising conflict.

After reading Antigone by Sophocles, readers may believe that the two main characters, Antigone and Creon, seem like polar opposites. However, after digging a little deeper, readers are able to come to a final conclusion that although both characters may not always see eye to eye, they carry a number of similar traits. The characters seem to be so alike that it results in the two to constantly disagree, leading towards the two to continuously find new differences and flaws within each other. They don’t exactly have the same views, for example, Antigone seems to put family over everything else while Creon’s loyalty is more concerned with the well-being of Thebes. However, the two characters do have many similar internal characteristics. They are independent, confident, and stubborn when they want to be.

Creon is characterized as an authoritarian tyrannical ruler. He created the law stating that nobody was to bury the body of Polynices because he betrayed the city of Thebes. Creon was right to make his law because Polynices was a turncoat and died on Theban soil. Although his law was harsh, he believed that he was in the right because a villain such as Polynices did not deserve a proper burial. Creon was especially enraged when Antigone disregarded his law because Polynices was her brother, “Oh but I hate it more / when a traitor, caught red-handed, / tries to glorify his crimes (Creon 552-554).”

Unlike most Greek tragedies, Antigone is not essentially about the opposing powers of good and evil. Instead, the play demonstrates the conflict between one’s duty towards their family and their country and social expectations. “Antigone presents a conflict between family loyalty and loyalty to the state, between demands of the state and the will of the individual” (MacKay, 166). The king

What is the difference between a tragic hero from an antagonist? In the story “Antigone”, written by famous play writer Sophocles, a young girl named Antigone fights a tragic battle in trying to prepare a proper funeral for her dead brother Polyneices. On the other hand Creon the King of Thebes, believes that Polyneices should be left unburied. The two conflicting characters Creon and Antigone differ based on their words, actions and ideas. Creon’s downfall slowly leads to more suffering even though he is just trying to follow the rules as a king. Creon’s traits of pride and ignorance are different from Antigone’s traits of perseverance lead to Creon’s position as a tragic hero because Creon can not accept the fact that Antigone is willing to do anything to have the burial for her brother and this leads to a series of tragic occurrences.

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.

Creon views the father-son relationship as one of submission. This view is evident when Creon says to Haemon, “stand behind fatherly advice on all counts/Keep [the son] at home, and have him listen to what he’s told” (Antigone 640/42). This view makes it blatant that Creon believes that a son should stand behind his father and not interfere with the father’s actions. Similarly, the son should obey the father under any circumstances. Obedience under any circumstance connotes a sense of submissiveness on the part of the son because the son has to obey his father's actions whether the actions are ethical or unethical. Creon expects Haemon’s submission, on all circumstances, especially when he subjects Haemon’s bride-to-be, Antigone, to her death. However, Haemon believes that her death sentence is unethical and harsh. Therefore, he attempts to sway