Creon Essay

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. The line in the second

In Sophocles’ Antigone, Creon wants Polyneices to remain unburied throughout eternity for fighting against Thebes. As a proud leader of the nation Thebes, Creon takes any action against his country to the heart. Polyneices fought against Thebes in an army titled the Seven Against Thebes while his brother Eteocles fought for the other side. Both were killed in combat, but only Eteocles was viewed as a hero by Creon. Creon’s role in the play remains static until the end, because he is to his word and

Antigone is about the conflicting ideals of Creon, the king of Thebes, and his niece Antigone. Antigone’s father, Oedipus, was the original king of Thebes who had killed his father and married his mother without knowledge of them being his parents. Oedipus has four children with his mother: Antigone, Ismene, Polynices, and Eteocles. He then blinds himself out of shame for his incestuous deeds and exiles himself, leaving the throne to his brother Creon since his two sons were too young. When Eteocles

bury his brother to put his body to rest, but it was a crime done that no one would consider doing. Although Creon traps Antigone in a cave to her death, Creon is punished by the consequences in the end, making creon the tragic hero. It began with a war that started to make everything fall apart for creon. Creon’s son was killed in the war by Polyneices, Polyneices also died in the war but creon would not allow polyneices to be buried because he killed creon’s son. This made Antigone stand up for her

despite the laws and risk potential death in the process. The person who put these laws into place is called Creon, who wants the person who buried the body to face justice. The sister who committed this crime is Antigone, who is also the character that I’m contrasting with Creon. Antigone, while being the sibling to the two brothers, is also related to Creon. You would assume this would cause Creon to not consider killing his blood and also is actually his son’s bride. Instead, he chooses to be relentless

interpretations regarding whether Antigone is correct in her views or Creon is, the German philosopher Hegel argues that both are right to some extent. When the argument is analyzed from both point of views it is evident that they both have some moral reasoning leading to both cases being correct; however, since neither side is willing to put themselves “in the other persons shoes” to have a clearer view of the situation, it causes Creon and Antigone to be wrong at the same time. Both Antigone’s and Creon’s

Creon’s character. In the end, these conflicting motivations develop Creon as a tragic hero by Haemon’s choice of word to his father and the character interactions advance the plot and develops the theme by

Published by Lara-Celeste Scafo // Period One CREON SUFFERED THE WORST FATE IN ANTIGONE AND HERE’S WHY: Who had the worst fate in the Greek tragedy, Creon, or Antigone? Some might say the story's protagonist Antigone, with her fiery personality and righteously stubborn nature, landing `her hanging in a tomb. But they’re wrong. The character who was dealt the worst hand by the author is the antagonist Creon, her uncle, and the king of Thebes. Creon is an ever loyal subject to Thebes. He, like any

audience to stand with the gods. Creon, the King of Thebes, produced a law in lines 222-228 that a man named Polynices could not be buried, a law that he knew was in direct opposition to a law of the gods. When Antigone tried to follow the gods’ law by burying Polynices, Creon had her locked up. Creon would have known the laws of the gods, being Grecian--perhaps even better than most, being an educated man--however, he made the law anyway. Sophocles’ example through Creon gives the audience an example

tragedy in your family? Have you ever been hurt by the death of a loved one or a close friend. In the play Antigone we see what true tragedy is and what makes a tragic hero. Creon is that tragic hero. The first reason why croon is the tragic hero is that his fall is caused by an error in judgment. When Creon was declaring what was to happen to his grandsons body after a battle he done the harshest punishment plausible, leaving a man um buried for the animals to eat. As seen in this