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Differences Between Antigone And Creon

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The mighty Antigone what’s Creon doing with our two brothers

Antigone’s words action,and ideas contrast with Creon’s character to the point of these two characters having conflicting motivation .These conflicting motivations cause the characteristics of coldhearted , anger , hateful to be highlighted within Creon’s character. Ultimately these conflicting motivations develop Creon’s as a tragic hero by meanful and hateful was because Creon says one brother should never be buried and also be eating by the dog’s and the character interactions advance the plot or develop the theme because she wanted to wanted to buried her brother and stand up to the king and show that she’s not scared.

Antigone’s words, action, and ideas contract with Creon’s character antigone saying both of her brothers deserve the same respect on lines 25-48. We see evidence from the text on page 255 and she say honouring one with a full funeral and treating the others one disgraceful. This evidence supports my claim because Creon’s says polinices was a outcast and he deserve not to be buried and he worthless. …show more content…

We see evidences from the text when the Guard told him that someone buried the body and Creon says go find the person to you get put to death. The Guard said then right away her hands threw on the thirsty dust. She lifted up a finely made bronze jug and three times poured out her tributes to the dead. When we saw that we rushed up right away on lines 480-490. This evidence support the claim because it tell us that Antigone wanted to buried bother of her brothers and Creon wanted to buried one of the her brothers and leave the other for dog’s to

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Creon shows an extraordinary amount of stubbornness throughout the story. An example is seen when Antigone wishes to give her brother, Polyneices a proper burial so he can have a pleasant afterlife with the Gods. Creon, as king wishes to have him rot in the fields because he turned his back on the state in which the events occurred.

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Creon:“I killed you, my son, without intending to,/ and you, as well, my wife,” (Lines 1486-1487). Antigone is the story of a girl who defies the king of Thebes in order to honor her dead brother, Polyneices, who is not allowed to be buried. When the king decides to punish her, his inability to listen to reasoning and resistance to change backfires on him in a deadly way. In the play, Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon, the play’s tragic hero, brings suffering to others, such as causing the death of Antigone, his son, Haemon, and his wife, Eurydice, which contributes to the tragic vision of the play as a whole because it shows how stubbornness brings pain for others. To begin with, Creon brings suffering to Antigone by refusing to change and

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Creon is the king of Thebes so he thinks that whatever he says goes. So when Antigone rebelled he was determined to find her and punish her. They talked and she almost immediately confessed that she buried Polyneices causing him to dislike her. Polyneices is the son of Oedipus and Jocasta making him Creon’s nephew. This also makes him Antigone’s brother.

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He also understands that the gods, including, “Zeus, who defends all bonds of kindred blood”(94), command certain laws that Antigone must follow. As Thebans, Greek traditions and religion are the basis of our culture. Family devotion and the laws of the gods are certain moral values that we abide by in our daily lives, and burial rites are no exception. Antigone must follow the laws declared by the Gods by paying respect to her brother or “face the retribution of the gods”(82). The two blatant facts that Creon’s nephew, Polynices, had recently died and his niece must bury him must have crossed the king’s mind.

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Antigone’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character by showing

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Antigone loved her family and believed they all should be treated equal. Therefore when Creon wouldn’t honor Polynices with a proper burial or allow anyone else to, Antigone knew it was her moral duty to bury him. Antigone told her sister Ismene, “I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I will lie with the one I love and loved by him – and outrage sacred to the gods.

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His character in Antigone becomes absolutely cruel and oppressive. For example, he acts very arrogant and cold towards Antigone when he punishes her for wanting to honor and bury her remaining of family, her brother. Even with Antigone crying out to him by saying, “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride” he still does not consider forgiving her because she has committed a crime in his eyes. In the literature of Antigone, Creon believes that he is always right and he does not bother to listen to the citizens opinions.

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Throughout the first and second scene, the theme human law versus divine law separates the two main characters Creon and Antigone, creating a deep conflict between them. At the beginning of the play, despite of the state and the human law, which Creon made, forbids her to do so, Antigone determines to burry her brother, Polynecies. She says to Ismene, “Creon is not enough to stand in my way. ”(15). Antigone believes that Creon has no right in the matter of burial, because it is part of the divine law and she believes divine law rules over human law.

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Beneath Antigone’s beliefs dishonor to family members was intolerable. On the other hand Creon’s life was controlled by what he thought was good for the state and its pride. Through opposing these characters Sophocles digs into the depths of morality and duty. Under the surface, despite their external differences the similitude between them was their ability to

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In the scene in which Creon will not allow her brother to be buried. This goes against her personal beliefs she confronts Creon when she says “if I had allowed my own mothers son to rot, an unburied corpse that would have been an agony.” Creon wouldn’t allow Antigone brother to be buried even tho Antigone felt it was the right thing to do. Antigone is talking to Ismene about burying her brother but Ismene tells her to keep the idea a secret but Antigone disagrees and says “But I know I’ll please the ones I’m duty bound to please.

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Creon ignores the advice of his fellow political officials when issuing a royal edict regarding Eteocles’s burial. Eteocles, Antigone’s brother, is entitled by the gods to be granted a proper burial, however Creon’s pride drives him to outlaw the burial, thinking Eteocles is a traitor simply because he owns a legitimate claim to the throne of Thebes. Like Agamemnon, Creon constantly makes decisions and conducts himself while influenced by his own hubris. This ultimately leads to the detriment of Antigone’s relatioinship with the king. Antigone defies Creon’s newly issued burial edict and does what she thinks is right: granting her brother Eteocles an honorable burial.

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“Whatever my hands have touched has come to nothing. Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of dust,” are the last words in the play said by Creon. This statement shows that a powerful king of Thebes once had fallen apart. In the play “Antigone,” written by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald as Antigone as the protagonist and Creon as the antagonist, it is clear that Creon was cast away in distress, misery, and sorrow. By reading this play I was able to get a depth insight of several of the characters, question the norms of society I live in today and analyze the specific relationship between Antigone and Creon.

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As Antigone’s introduction explains, “Creon apparently knows that this…is at odds with the traditional understanding of divine law…which justice demands that family members are permitted to bury their dead relatives whether or not they were loyal to the

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Antigone tells her that Creon has decided to honor one of her brothers with a full funeral and burial, but the other disgracefully. She is very upset over her brother, Polyneicies, that she loves dearly not getting a proper burial, which is disobeying the gods and their religion. She then calls upon Ismene to take action, stateing “ Now you know,.. splendid ancestry.” because Creon announces

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Antigone is the daughter of the late king Oedipus, and Creon is the king of Corinth. The conflict that these two face is the burial of Polyneices, who was Antigone’s deceased brother. Creon was not allowing Polynices to be buried, because he had fought against Athens. To Creon, this was correct: “And yet you dared to overstep these laws?” (Sophocles Line 458)

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