Creon's Rule In Antigone

Antigone, written by the Greek playwright Sophocles, is a tragic work that pins laws and rules against family and moral decisions. When King Creon declares that Polyneices, Antigone’s brother, be left unburied for his wrongdoing, she violates his rule and buries him anyways. Creon sentences her to spend the rest of her life in a cave, in which she will quickly die of starvation. But Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s betrothed, disagrees with his father and goes to free Antigone. When he gets there, he finds that she had hung herself and kills himself on the spot. Then Eurydice, Creon’s wife, finds out about the death of her son and consequently kills herself as well. Creon had been warned by a prophet, Teiresias, but chose not to listen and

When Polyneices marched against his own city to get his turn on the throne that his brother refused to give up, they both ended up dying at each other’s hands. Creon ordered that Eteocles, the other brother, deserved an honorable burial and Polyneices be left unburied to enjoy no afterlife. By Antigone burying him against Creon’s rule, she set up the tragic ending of the story. Aside from the point, her defiance tells us that her character is strong and obstinate. Women didn’t have an important role in Theban society, and everyone knew it too. But Antigone would stick to her morals and give Polyneices the afterlife she believed he deserved. This audacious and rebellious act was just the beginning of the ill-fated

But again, Creon didn’t listen, even to a prophet himself. His pride clouded his ability to make the right decision. It’s not necessarily all Creon’s fault, depending on how you look at it, but none of these deaths would have occurred if he would have just listened. He did however make the final choice to imprison Antigone, which ended up sealing the fate of both his son and wife. This was basically the most pivotal defiance of the whole story. All led up to the epic conclusion, but this one basically formed the ending and very tragic deaths of three characters. Teiresias is a prophet after all, and a famous one at