Antigone By Creon: A Tragic Hero

Sometimes the person that you don’t get along with is the person you are most alike. My dad and I most of the times don’t get along. Whenever one of us is wrong we try to prove it right because we believe we are right which ends up in a fight or us being mad at each other. Antigone wanted to bury Polyneices after he died but Creon said that he forbid anyone who tried to bury him because Polyneices was a traitor. Antigone did not care and buried him anyways even though she knew she was going to get punished. Creon thought he had the most power over everybody but it turns out that the Gods were the ones with the power. In the play Antigone, Creon is a tragic hero which advances the play when he interacts with Antigone by acts of injustice, free choice and weakness. To begin with, Creon was unjust when he Punished Antigone for burying her own brother. “So she [Antigone] must die- that

“You [Antigone] pushed your daring to the limit… tripped against a higher altar- perhaps your agonies are paying back. Some compensation for your father” (p.287). He is trying to say that he is higher than the gods and that Antigone messed up not following his rules. Creon wants Antigone to feel that she is paying for her father’s mistakes so he won’t feel like he’s doing something wrong. “To be piously devout shows reverence, but powerful men, who in their persons incorporate authority, cannot bear to break their rules. Hence, you die because of your own selfish will” (p. 287). Creon refers himself to be a powerful man which makes him think great about himself which causes him not to think twice about what he’s doing. Creon will have problems because he can not have anyone to break his rules thinking that he is the high authority, even higher than the gods. Creon will have problems because he can not have anyone to break his rules thinking that he is the high authority, even higher than the