How Does Antigone Characterize Creon

At the beginning of the play when Haimon was first introduced, Haimon was submissive and conciliatory. These characteristics helped draw more attention to how Creon’s personality. By being more submissive at the beginning of the play, it shows how much pride Creon has and how hard headed he is. “Haimon “You have no right to trample on God’s right.” Creon “Fool, adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman!” Haimon “You’ll never see me taken in by anything vile.” Creon “Every word you say is for her!” Haimon “And for you. And for me. And for the gods under the earth.”(Lines 113-117). This conversation shows Haimon’s main role in the play is to help protect Antigone and to help show her loyalty and nobility, which emphasize some of Creon’s bad characteristics, such as how unreasonable he is towards Antigone. This quote does not only emphasize Haimon’s role, but it also shows how Creon sees women as objects or items, unlike Haimon.“There is no art that teaches us to know/ the temper, mind or spirit of any man/ until he has been proved by government/ and lawgiving.” (Lines 175-178). This quote is ironic since Creon fails his own test; Creon is hyper-logical; unlike Haimon who fights for what he believes is right instead of finding it logical.Another characteristic that Haimon has, is that throughout the situation he grew wiser, unlike Creon, who only became more stubborn

In the play Antigone, Creon starts off as the loyal king of Thebes. He is loyal to the gods and loyal to the welfare of Thebes. However, over the course of the play, Creon degenerates into a tyrant. His degeneration is showing his character development. Creon’s pride about the human law also develops throughout the play, creating conflict with the divine law. When Antigone rebels against his law, he becomes stubborn, and makes myopic decisions and grows into his hamartia. Besides his hamartia, Creon’s position as the king makes him a power hungry man. His power madness degenerates him into becoming a ruthless and vindictive man, even to his family. However, over the course of the play, Creon begins to see that because of the laws of men, he was being blinded of what’s

Even though Antigone exhibits a blamable pride and a hunger for glory, her disobedience is less serious than those of Creon. It is evident that Antigone’s actions are driven by a love for her brother, and a desire to please the gods. While Creon’s actions are

Creon uses his divine rights as a king to persuade others to do his grunt work. For example he threatens the Sentry when he says, “Upon my oath, I swear As Zeus is my god above: either you find the perpetrator of this burial… or death” -pg 147. Creon compares himself to the gods and when Antigone begins to make other question this statement he uses his stature as king to prove her wrong. The struggle for power shows that even in the time of monarchs one misplaced stone can send the entire wall of power into dismay. However much like Antigone he believes in family first, “Rightly said. Your father’s will should have your heart’s first place”- pg 157. Creon keeps Heamon under him by constantly reinforcing the idea that Antigone is a criminal. When Haemon finally stands up to Creon it is in the form of suicide. While Creon takes advice from the Chorus he still explicitly states that “Since when do I take my orders from the people of Thebes” - pg 159. Creon is threatened by the thought of a government where he does not have all the

In addition, Creon also has an inaccurate view of his place in relation to the gods. He believes that man’s laws are more important than the laws of the gods. Antigone tries to defend her decision to bury her brother by proclaiming, “I do not think your edicts have such power that they can override the laws of heaven…If I transgressed these laws because I feared the arrogance of man, how to the god’s could I make satisfaction” (line 408)? Creon’s hubris causes him to think that he must put Antigone to death because she chooses to follow the god’s laws over his.

In scene 3, Creon cliams, “Disgusting character! To play the second to a woman!” (759-760). At this point, Creon is being inflexible to everyone. He believes that the gods are playing with Antigone to have her betray him.

Haimon argues with his father that he is ignorant of the entire situation. Antigone should be seen as a hero, as she was brave enough to go against the law and follow her heart. Creon thinks that his son is just a love struck fool and too young to understand. Creon tells his son "Son your pathethic. You give in to a women (46)”. Creon told Haimon this because he thinks that his son is young and immature and is in love with Antigone and wants him to pardon her because of that reason. Haimon is correct in the things he is saying, but Creon does not think so. Haimon brings up that the town of thebes nothing against Antigone or her deeds. Creon does not listen and gives Antogone the cruelest punishment to showcase the danger of going against his

This play is ultimately concerned with one person defying another person and paying the price. Antigone went against the law of the land, set by the newly crowned King Creon. Antigone was passionate about doing right by her brother and burying him according to her religious beliefs even though Creon deemed him a traitor and ordered him to be left for the animals to devour. Creon was passionate about being king and making his mark from his new throne. Although they differed in their views, the passion Creon and Antigone shared for those opinions was the same, they were equally passionate about their opposing views. Creon would have found it very difficult to see that he had anything in common with Antigone however as he appears to be

Antigone got captured when burying her brother and was sentenced to death, the only problem is that Creon’s son is engaged to Antigone. Haimon thinks that Creon should think about what he is doing and that every

The play Antigone by Sophocles is about a girl named Antigone who tries to bury her brother after he had passed away. However the ruler of the kingdom, Creon, is stopping her from doing so. Antigone disobeys Creon by going against Creon and burying her brother. She also said to Creon that she doesn't have to listen to his rules and must do what is right. Creon didn't like that and threw her in a chamber. In the chambers Antigone ends up hanging herself. Because of this Creon’s son, Haimon, tries to kill him for killing Antigone but Haimon ends up stabbing himself by accident and dies. Creon’s wife was devastated by her son’s death and also killed herself. With no one left Creon realizes he had made a huge mistake by killing

The way he addresses them exemplifies his unwillingness to change for anybody, he finds it almost laughable that they would alter his actions. Creon is again shown a good argument, that his own son will die if he kills Antigone; however, because he does not accept that other people can alter his way of doing things, he dismisses his son’s threat later in the passage. Only a stubborn person would be faced with the suicide of their son, and brush it off as bluff, and deny their involvement. Blindsided by his own stubbornness, Creon finally meets his faith when he heads to Antigone’s place of captivity to see “Her [Antigone] hanging by her neck… whereon the poor demented boy [Haemon] Leaned on his sword and thrust it deeply into his own side.”(159) Creon arrived to see Antigone dead and his son killing himself, however there can’t be sympathy for someone who brought it upon themselves. He dismissed all people who got in his way, his son as well as his constituents, and he was met with the unavoidable. As predicted by his son, he killed himself, therefore proving that Creon’s stubbornness lead directly to his son’s death. Creon finally accepts his wrongs, but that is after he dismissed and denied all contrasting arguments. Creon’s downfall is by no doubt caused by his stubbornness, he had many

Without any clue of the circumstances, he immediately sticks to his law and sends people to find the criminal. Since Creon is the king, he believes that he is in ultimate control and always correct. In a fight with his son Haimon, Creon is told that punishing Antigone is wrong. Creon does not accept this idea and blames this faulty reasoning on Haimon’s love for Antigone. Creon’s attitude brings him into utter

Despite his status, Creon continues to be arrogant and passes judgment quickly on others. Creon believes that he alone can judge what is right and wrong and wields his power over all. “I’ll have no dealings with law-breakers, critics of the government: Whoever is chosen to govern should be obeyed–– must be obeyed, in all things, great and small, just and unjust!” (Lines 525-529). Creon quickly punished Antigone for her crime.

The play takes place in in the city of Thebes, it follows the same pattern as many other Greek tragedies, because one character’s decisions that affect the other characters. The conflict throughout the play is that Creon and Antigone are both stubborn and constantly fight, because Antigone would rather serve her duty to the gods rather than Creon. Because of this, Creon declares that Antigone will be killed since she decided to go against his decision of burying her brother Polyneices, since he fought against Thebes and Eteocles. Creon is warned that, “stubborn self-will incurs a charge of stupidity” (L, 1028) and that he should reconsider his options. Ignoring what he’s been told, Creon, and his decision does not falter.

In contrast to Creon’s opinion that ultimate authority rests with the king, Antigone believes that everyone, even the king, should follow the gods’ laws first. She does not want to betray her brother or “be a traitor…to the gods” by not burying him (line 48). She follows up with this assertion saying, “He [Creon] has no right to keep me from my own” (line 50). These statements demonstrate that her priorities lie first with the gods and second with her family, both of which she places above the authority of the king.