Antigone Vs Creon Character Analysis

The play Antigone is about two brothers who kill each other in battle, one is buried one isn’t and laws are placed in order to prevent it from happening. A sister comes in to bury his brother 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 was used to represent family in the play while Ismene represented authority. Sophocles used the bond between two sisters and their brother, to show how family should hold the highest of importance to someone. When Antigone asked Ismene to help her in burying their brother she ask if she was “A true sister, or a traitor to your family” (1.27). This was an important line to show where Sophocles stands in the matter family or authority. He wanted to show that by not saying yes to helping Antigone, she should have been ashamed of herself for betraying her family. When Antigone went through with her plan and was caught, Creon had the guards get Ismene too. Ismene wanted to die along with her sister but Antigone told her “You shall not lessen my

Although Antigone rebels against the King, she is more like Creon than she realizes. Both are aggressive, selfish and proud. Although Antigone was the main victim of the play, Creon was just the same by the end. Both of the characters bicker and show how their self-will made them more confident in their actions. With their differences, Antigone and Creon are similar in many ways.

Antigone’s tragic flow is her loyalty to religious law. Although the main reason why Antigone was eager to break the new laws of Creon was because her family was involved, she still deserved all the honor. She is a brave woman who was strong and

In the play Antigone, Creon’s actions contribute to his role as a tragic hero throughout the play. His stubbornness and power is shaping him as a character and develops a plot. Creon fits all the traits of a tragic hero, which is someone from a noble structure who makes a mistake which leads them to their destruction. Antigone the child of Oedipus, has conflicts with Creon and her decision to bury her brother upsets him.Creon has too much power and stubbornness, pride to think right and bumps heads with Antigone in the play, that issue develops a theme throughout the play. Antigone thinks differently and her words, actions contrast with Creon and contributes to Creon as a tragic hero. Antigone decisions and her relationship with Creon develops a central theme.

Antigone is a great Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. The story is about a young woman who buries her brother by breaking the king’s decree, and now she has to be taught a lesson for breaking Creon’s word. The king is greedy and cruel. The main character, Antigone, shows that she is faithful and an independent woman. Ismene, Antigone’s sister, is quite the opposite. Unlike Antigone, she is earnest. The characters in Antigone have quite the different personalities.

In the greek tragedy, Antigone, written by Sophocles there are many characters that had tragic flaws that eventually led to their death, but a main character that possesses many of these flaws is Creon. Early on in the book he is talking to the Chorus and Choragos explaining what he is going to do about the deaths of Eteocles and Polyneices when he says, “Polyneices, I say,/ is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for/ him” (Sophocles I.i. 169-171). This quote is important to the play because it shows Creon the king of Thebes free choice of not burying Polyneices because he believes that Polyneices is a trader to the city of Thebes. Creon’s decision eventually leads to his downfall because of his excessive pride.

This is clear especially in her lack of an appeal to Creon. Not until she is directly confronted by her uncle does she attempt to dissuade him from dishonoring her brother. Even then, she seems to be simply defending her own actions rather than accusing him of being wrong, as she so adamantly did with Ismene. He needs to implore her to “Speak!” (166, 442), and when she does, she is flippant and prideful. Antigone only engages in real dialogue with him when he forces her to. This could be interpreted as her simply understanding his position and accepting it, but I find that unlikely. She clearly fundamentally disagrees with him and his interpretation of the gods, but instead of trying to persuade him to recant his decree and bury her brother, she capitalizes on the position she’s in and thrusts herself into martyrdom. Even by the gods’ standards, this does not seem to be justice or “rightness”. Her surface level loyalty to her family is certainly appealing, but I find it insincere and not right.

Antigone is a tense play with many characters finding themselves at conflict with everyone else. Our main character Antigone finds is posed as an admirible individual for her to loyalty towards her brother polyneices that she broke the forbidden law. While Creon is a repugnant character for his stubborn, arrogant, and unsympathetic ways.

Most Greek myths have a moral or lesson to teach behind their mysterious story lines. One Greek myth known as “Antigone,” presents a few of its own ideas as well. The plot is built up with conflicts including the conflict between Antigone and Ismene. Although, they are biological sisters, their personalities are completely different. It can be said that they are opposites. I have the qualities of both sisters, but I think that I have more similarities with Antigone than with Ismene. Antigone is shown to be a very headstrong woman. When her uncle Creon ordered that her brother, Polynices, shall not have burial rites, Antigone didn’t agree with him. Because of the conflict developing between the two, she was determined to bury her brother, disregarding

Antigone is a play that mainly deals with differences among characters that cause life long drawbacks and threatening resolutions. The drama is portrayed through Antigone and Creon's characters who undoubtedly resemble each other. Although they try to be masters of their own fate and eventually succumb to grieving outcomes, they both seem to have the values of a tragic hero. Although, they have their differences, their battle with one another illustrates them both as moral characters full of pride and arrogance.

“Everything I touch goes wrong, and on my head fate climbs up with its overwhelming load. -Creon (Lines 1492-1493)” Throughout the play Creon is known as a tragic hero, due to his chance to change his own destiny. Although the decision is his to make, Creon still chooses to put his own selfishness in front of what's truly right by others. Within Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon acts as an instrument of suffering for others by his selfish acts and lack of sympathy, consequently bringing more anguish into his life and to those that are closest to him, ultimately portraying a more tragic vision to the play .

Antigone and Creon, the two displayed tragic figures of Antigone, both led themselves to their demise because of their love for themselves and the hate they both share for one another. Antigone’s proven love is of the afterlife while her hate is for her uncle and king, Creon. Creon may share the love of himself, however, it is not quite the same as Antigone’s love. Creon loves to rule the city of Thebes and hate’s Antigone, which is very odd for both characters because they are family. Sophocles uses the Rhetoric of love and hate between Antigone and Creon to expose the characters weaknesses, which would ultimately lead Antigone and Creon to their downfalls. The characters’ love is for themselves, which blinded them from seeing the consequences, however, Antigone doesn’t truly have any consequences, only Creon. Antigone wanted the life of the afterlife and had already given Polynices a proper burial, so Creon executing her was only giving her what she wanted. Creon, however, ultimately lost his family when they killed themselves because of his love for his city, he neglected to love his family and lost them, which is why Creon could be considered the more tragic figure of the play. Additionally, their hate for one another focused them on each other and spawned a personal battle of power between one another, causing them to ignore the world around. For example, Creon was more focused on his hate for Antigone that he neglected his wife and son, Haemon, who ultimately killed

Antigone disagrees with Creon’s decree because Polyneices is her brother, and to bury her other brother, Eteocles with great honor and not him would make her a traitor to her family.

The story of Antigone and her quest to bury her dead brother involves her, and her king uncle Creon, facing a family flaw that eventually causes both of their downfalls. Antigone consists of a hard-headed niece Antigone, facing her uncle Creon's law to give her brother a proper burial, even though it may risk death. Antigone’s tragic flaw in this play is being stubborn and full of pride, which causes her to be killed in the end. The key aspect of Creon’s tragic flaw is much the same. He refuses to see reason because he is too full of pride to realize what is right and wrong. Sophocles uses Creon and Antigone’s tragic ending to explain how overwhelming pride causes even the strongest of leaders to become blind to any and all reason.