Antigone And Creon Character Traits

In sophocles play Antigone Creon’s flaw is his pride. In the quote “ Now I am no man, but she is a man, if power lies with impunity.” Creon feels that if he isn't hard on Antigone, then he isn't a man. He doesn’t want to look weak to his subjects which hurts his pride, so he decides to kill Antigone instead of being nicer. You see Creon's pridefulness again when he goes to the prophet. Creon contradicts the prophet insisting that they are wrong and he is right. This pride leads to everyone he loves dying. Other characters even tell Creon that he is being arrogant and that he’s not always right. Haimon tells Creon “ I beg you not to be unchangeable. Do not believe that you alone can be right.” Creon believes that he is even above the gods at

“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,

Does Creon’s pride overlook Antigone’s wants? Antigone is the sister of her two brothers Eteocles, and Polyneices, but Creon only gives one of them there proper burial. Antigone does not like the decree of the king, Creon and rebels towards him and others, from Polyneices not getting a proper burial. Antigone does not listen to anyone and buries him herself and Antigone gets punished from not listening, but Antigone does not care because both of her brothers should have had the proper burial in their honor. Antigone has not listened Ismene her sisters’ advice, rebels against Creon, after it all she kills herself and causes many death from her outcome.

For example, when Haemon finds out of Antigone’s doing, Creon boldly stated that “since I caguht her, alone of all entire people, in open rebellion, I will not make myself a liar to the city…” (666-668). So if Haemon was the one to stop her, she would not be in this situation, but since a decreaa was made too, punishment was to be made. Also, during Creon an Haemon’s arguement about women and what they are, Creon asserted, “you’re the slave of a woman, don’t chatter to me,” (770). He is being prejudice towards women, which eventually leads to deaths and he looses

Creon is aggressive when trusting people who do not follow the rules. Creon's aggressiveness is shown in the story when he says “An enemy can never be a friend, not even in death”(Sophocles 600). This quote shows that Creon is aggressive because no matter what someone does that betrays him or the rules he makes, he can never be his friend even when they die. Why Creon is a tragic hero because of the power he has. Creon is the king, so he is very powerful, but he becomes more powerful when he does not want Antigone to marry Hameon.

The character I choose to contrast with Creon is Antigone because they both have some similarities, like they both are willing to fight to the death because of their personalities and beliefs. One character treat of Creon was his autocrat because when Antigone gets coughs burning her brother she gets and send to death but Creon agrees to free her, this shows that Creon doesn’t want anything to happen to Antigone so he promises her freedom, but when Creon goes to see her it’s too late because she has already committed suicide. Antigone help develop Creon into a tragic hero because at first Creon wasn’t willing to listen to anyone. He was so stubborn that when he spoke to Teiresia, he thought he was being paid off, he did it want to believe

In the play Antigone by Sophocles there is more than one tragic hero. In the story the tragic hero of this play is Creon which is the king of Thebes. Creon’s flaw is his pride and stubbornness. He expressed these traits when challenged by his niece Antigone, and even his own son, through many different ideas, actions, and words.

So when Polyneices was killed in a dual and was not granted a proper burial, like their brother Eteocles, Antigone was going to do something about it. Their uncle, Creon, set the new law that no one was able to let Eteocles body to peace and anyone who tried would be stoned to death. Antigone however did not care, she felt her brother deserved a proper burial just like Eteocles. She snuck to when Eteocles body was being kept

In the play of "Antigone" by Sophicles, sisters of a royal bloodline head back to Thebes, in which they they then find out both of their brothers are deceased. Creon- the main antogonist in the play- has arranged a proper burial for one the brothers but has banned the other one of a burial. This becomes the main protagonists goal- Antigone- to bury her other brother.

Creon fits Aristotle’s tragic hero traits as a significant person who is faced with difficult decisions. Creon is significant because he is king. This makes him both renowned and prosperous. Creon is not completely good nor completely bad; he is somewhere in-between, as humans are. The audience can relate to this and they admire his qualities of intelligence in political affairs. They can also relate to his ability to make hard decisions with apparent ease. These hard decisions are

Creon 's human flaws and emotions such as pride and arrogance lead to his ultimate downfall, which ties into him being the tragic hero. Creon 's ego prevents him from listening to any advice given to him. He states "My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city". Creon is not willing to listen to anybody, because he believes that going back on a decision will somehow destroy his pride. In an intense discussion with the prophet Teiresias, he warns Creon "a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong. The only crime is pride"(Literature for Composition. Scene 5. Page 459. Line 35). Creon however, does not heed to the warning and is too late in his attempt to reverse the watershed event that he has created. Creon 's pride is the flaw that leads to his downfall.

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

He demonstrates this when he refuses to release Antigone out of pride, As stated by Creon in Antigone “ Do you want me to show myself weak before the people? Or to break my sworn word? No, and I will not,” He decided that he would rather let the city dislike him and not agree with his decisions then have them see himself in a weak way. Another criteria that Creon fits is that the hero must be spiritually or physically wounded by his experiences. Creon is spiritually wounded when not only his son kills himself out of the sadness of Antigone's death but when his wife kills herself after she finds out her son is dead. When Creon finds out about his wife's death he begs to be taken away out of guilt “It is right that it should be. I alone am guilty. I know it, and I say it. Lead me in,Quickly, friends. I have neither life nor substance. Lead me in,” The third criteria that fits Creon is that the hero must be faced with a very serious decision that he has to make. Creon is faced with the decision of taking back what he said and releasing Antigone or sticking to what he said and letting the people hate him. “...It troubles me. Oh it is hard to give in! but it is worse. To risk everything for stubborn pride,” This was stated by Creon when faced with the decision of releasing Antigone or leaving her to die. However he came to the conclusion to let her go through advice from

     Finally, Creon is a dynamic character. He undergoes changes in emotion throughout the work. He realizes his mistakes when Tiresias forecasts the future. Thus, Creon attempts to correct himself by releasing Antigone. But he is too late. He is forced to live, knowing that three people are dead as a result of his actions. This punishment is worse than death. Although Creon’s self-righteousness and inflexibility did not change until the end of the play, his motivations traveled from patriotic ones to personal ones. This created a major portion of the

Creon came into power when Oedipus was exiled and died. Throughout the play, Antigone, Creon exemplifies many characteristics. Some are selfishness, stubbornness, and pride. He is selfish because he does only want he wants to do and listens to no one else. He shows his stubbornness when he is unwilling to let Antigone live even