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Examples Of Kreon In Antigone

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In the play, “Antigone” by Sophocles, one of the main characters Antigone, shows us that through determination and bravery we can accomplish the things that scare us the most. Kreon, the new ruler of Thebes, has put a ban on burying Polyneikes, Antigone's brother because he betrayed the city. Antigone wants to go against Kreons law because of the respect she has not only for her brother but the respect she has for the Gods law. Antigone has learned what law Kreon has set for the people of Thebes, they were told that they must not bury the body of Polyneikes. She sets out to find her sister, Ismene, and tell her the upsetting news about their brother. She explains to Ismene that “Kreon honored only one / of our brothers with a tomb and dis- / honored the other… anyone who does / what he now forbidden will be put / before the people and by public stoning / murdered” (lines 26-47). Antigone is taken back by the ridiculous law. She doesn’t understand why Kreon made a law that goes against what the law of the Gods is, which is that every person deserves a grave. …show more content…

She clearly knows the consequences if she does go through with it but decides that her honor is stronger than death. She asks Ismene “Will you join with this hand of mine to lift the body? … I will not be caught betraying [Polyneikes]” (54-58). Ismene thinks that this idea is ludicrous. She responds to Antigone by reminding her of all the deaths that their family has already gone through and that they are the last ones standing. She also opposes the idea that they have no real power anymore, therefore, they must obey the new ruler because it doesn’t make sense to her, she claims it is futile, there is no

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In Sophocles' Antigone, the foremost source of conflict between Antigone and Kreon is the burial of Antigone's dead brothers who liquidate each other in battle after one disagreed to hand over the throne. After hearing the tragic news, Antigone conveys to her sister Ismene: Kreon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldier's funeral, and it was right that he should; but Polyneices, who fought as bravely and died as miserably, — they say that Kreon has sworn no one shall bury him, no one mourn for him. (1. 15-20) Antigone decides that she will bury Polyneicies herself even though it is illegal. She is loyal to her family, does not want to disgrace the laws of the gods, and also believes that it is her hereditary duty to bury her brother Polynecies regardless of whatever crime he has committed.

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Antigone would like for Polyneices to be honored by having him buried and having an appropriate tomb for him. However, Kreon wants the opposite for him, he is very much against burying Polyneices and will do everything in his power, including killing Antigone to get what he wants. It is not until the very end that he has come around to the idea and realizes that he should set Antigone free and construct a tomb for his son. Both Antigone and Kreon are admirable for different reasons, Antigone for being willing and brave to go against Kreon’s wishes and Kreon for finally realizing that what he thought was right was actually in the end not the right thing. In the end, Kreon also believes that it is his choices that made his wife and his son, Haemon, to kill them.

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