Creon's Decisions In Antigone

Is Antigone ignorant or wise about her choices and reactions to Creon? Some people say she maybe be wise for burying Polygonises out of God's law instead of Creon’s law. Antigone is indeed a wise and faithful woman for burying Polygonises because of her beliefs; she is also bold about her beliefs because of her bold statements about Creon’s law (with him being the king).

All throughout Antigone, the author Sophocles shows the audience how pride affects people’s actions and decisions. Pride is the causing factor of the play’s entire plot. It is clear Sophocles wanted his audience to see the results of what it can do. In Antigone the most revenant word to the play is pride because it causes the conflict and it controls many of the characters actions; such as Antigone and Creon.

One way this theme was developed was through character emotion. When Creon made the law that no one could give polynices a proper burial and that if someone was caught in the act they were to be killed. Creon create this law because Polynices fought for the other side Argos and killed a lot of thebes soldier. This made Antigone mad because he is her brother by blood. She tell Ismene her sister ¨He is my brother and deny it as you will your brother too. No one will convict me for a traitor.¨ She is annoyed that the law will convicted her for burying her brother but then she is more annoyed that her sister is not willing to give in and help bury a brother by blood because he fought for the Argos. Antigone goes to the point when she yells at her

In Sophocles’ Antigone, there is a myriad of tragic characters, but Antigone’s fatal flaws and weaknesses clearly lead to her doom and downfall. Antigone is headstrong, stubborn, prideful, and determined which isn’t always unacceptable. She is also very loyal to the gods, but disloyal to King Creon and might want to defy him. She is unyielding, wouldn’t leave matters alone and is also unwilling to take the simple approach of asking first before trying something so rash. Antigone’s failing to realize the ripple effect of her suicide which then causes two more deaths, Haimon and Eurydice. Antigone’s vices lead her to her own destruction when she defies Creon, argues with Creon, and commits suicide by hanging herself.

Creon has more balance with public law as he the one who enforces the law. Not to be brutal but to set example for his people. He seems to show that he have a feeling of sympathy but he could not go back on his orders knowing the positon he carry. Firm and focus was his personally way of handling thing in the book. Antigone has a more balance view of private morality as she feel like regardless of the law stating she cannot bury her brother she will , being that burying him is the right thing to do. Antigone and Creon beliefs made them had difference and did not understand each other. Tragedy soon unraveled silently.

Creon is the main antagonist of the play Antigone by Sophocles. In the play he is forced to make a hard decision. He must choose between keeping his word to an old friend, and staying stern as a leader. Amplifying the eternal conflict between keeping your personal and professional lives separate and good.

Antigone- She is the oldest daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. She is the brave compared to her two sisters and she thinks that her brother Polyneices deserves a proper burial so she goes to do this and gets banned from the city.

There's a common saying of, “what goes up must come down”. Likewise, in many of Aristotle's most successful tragedies, a key character is often put into place with a fatal flaw that completely turns his or her world upside down; furthermore, the story of Antigone is no exception. Although many characters seem to show some of the characteristics of a tragic hero, Creon is most notably the tragic hero of this story due to his high role in the Theban society, his fatal flaw or hamartia of hubris, as well as the anagnorisis and catastrophe he faces.

Antigone buried her brother because she believed it was simply the right thing to do. This is why she accepted the consequences to her actions; she knew the consequences and was willing to die for doing the right thing. Antigone accepted her punishment, died with pride and she was confident with her choice without looking back once. But some could say she was selfish and never thought of the consequences of other people, but those people decided to join her because of Creon not Antigone. Over all, Antigone was right for what she did because she knew what was going to happen and accepted it with open arms.

Despite that, fate is not what drives her to act so impulsively, but rather her knowledge of her fate. Although fate is mostly believed to dictate free will, in Antigone’s case, her free will dictates her fate because Sophocles really stresses that free will is logically incoherent, and fate is a vast network of causal factors of one’s free will. As a result, her loyalty—both to the gods and her family—catapulted her life into misery. And the audiences are taught that positive emotions, at some point, will lead to negative consequences because they overshadow reasonable

Tiresias, the blind profit, stated to Creon that “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil: The only crime is pride.” This quote is valid to the assertion that Antigone has about burying her brother. She strongly believes that she can bury her brother and she should be able to because he was a righteous man besides the fact that he did one bad thing in his life and all of the good things he did in his life repairs his wrongdoings. This is true to today, many kids are mean to their parents and try to betray them without even knowing it, just like Antigone did when she tried to bury her brother Polynices. Antigone knows that Polynices is not a bad person, so she tries to do this great thing for him, even though it would make her break the law of the king Creon. She knows it is a big risk and she would probably be executed for it, but when you believe in something so strongly you have to go with your gut, and that is exactly what Antigone did. She went and buried her brother and of course she gets caught and is brought to Creon.

Antigone proves that she is a tragic hero because she is flawed in the fact that she has too much pride. One moment that displays that Antigone possesses too much pride, is when Ismene reminds her about the severe punishments that could result from giving Polynices a proper burial, “He has no right to keep me from my own”(128). This quote shows that Antigone is willing to disobey the king, Creon in order to please herself by giving Polynices a proper burial. Consisting of too much pride is eventually the cause of her death. A second instant where Antigone is shown to have an exceeding amount of pride is when she is determined to give Polynices a proper burial is when Ismene has been consistently telling her that she will not succeed, “Go your own way; I will bury my brother!”(128). Antigone is telling her sister, Ismene, that she will bury her brother no matter what, and there is nothing that will stop her from doing it. A third example of Antigone having too much pride is when she tells Ismene why she wants to persevere in giving her brother a proper burial, “convicted of reverence – I shall be content/ to live beside a brother whom I love”(128). Antigone loves Polynices so much that she wants to die for him, so that she can be buried next to him. This will give her pride if she accomplishes it. Antigone thinks that the only way this will happen is if she buries him herself, and then gets killed for burying him. In addition to having a flaw, another that proves

If I shall die before my time, I count that a profit.”(pg 198) Her reaction to all that has occurred shows how strong of a person she is. Antigone never forgets who she and what matters most to her. Ismene would never be as strong and persevere as her sister does. There are two quotes in the tragedy that exhibit what type of a person Antigone is and why she upholds and acts with her morals. “There is nothing shameful in honoring my brother.”(pg 200) Anyone put in Antigone’s situation- facing life and death- must battle with what is moral. Is her life worth more than being faithful to her brother or should she just let her brother’s body be desecrated? Antigone has already lost her mother and in a sense lost her father with all that fate has served them. Antigone has seen what life has done and accepts all of it. Her whole purpose is for everything to be fair, just, and accept what life hands her. Her trust remains in the gods and the gods will protect her. “The god of death demands these rites for both.” (pg 201) Antigone refers to her brothers. As said before, everyone deserves the right to have the proper burial. The gods never deny someone of that right. There is love for everyone, not hate- which is what Creon does not believe in.

Throughout the entire play, Antigone battles with the fact that sometimes you have to make a difficult decision in order to obtain the good life. She struggles with the fact of whether or not to go against her Uncle Creon’s proclamation and bury her brother Polynices, the traitor. Antigone sees no validity in law if it disregards family. She’s willing to die for her family because it’s her own kin. That’s why as Antigone was being lead to her death, she states she wouldn’t defy Creon if it were her child or husband because those are replaceable. But seeing as both of her parents are dead, the option of having another brother was not possible. When Creon found out that she tries to bury her brother, she states: “I did not intend to pay the penalty to the gods for violating these laws in fear of some man’s opinion, for I know I will die” (Sophocles line 470). Antigone believes that she’s not breaking the law of the gods nor justice, just the law of an unjust man. So in her eyes, it’s leading her to the good life

Antigone is the Tris Prior of her time- as strange as that sounded- she was one who would do anything for those she cared about and will go against the law to make sure that it was done successfully. Although Creon was the main cause for her death, there were many others that took a toll. Antigone is a strong willed woman who is one for going against the ‘natural order’ of Theban culture. Antigone-as well as breaking the gender stereotype- she believed that the Gods were in charge of the deaths and Creon was only in charge of Thebes. And lastly, she is seen as a martyr for she died for her beliefs. Her actions are most admirable as throughout the play no matter who tells her-her sister mostly- she doesn’t give up. The causes of Antigone’s death show that she’s not afraid to be who she is, she has strong beliefs that she makes sure are known to others in the play and even though she unfortunately dies, it was quite admirable.