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Tale Of Death Creon Analysis

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It’s where the carcasses of innocents are stacked as high as trees, where blood has turned entire lakes red, and where poverty has plagued the homes of sleeping childrenwe call home. While it is somewhat depressing to admit, the world is filled with a lot of horrors and bad. And while there is an almost equal amount of good, the fact of the manner is that for some people in the world, a luxury of that experience is unaffordable. It's everly important that we, as a people, must learn to show empathy to our fellow men and women. We must understand that we ally experience a common sense struggle, and only in death do we ever truly experience a sense of peace. And truthfully death is a very blunt but sensitive. And this might be the reason why …show more content…

A message that appears in divinity and in authoritative light, that death, is a subject and concept that must be respected in all ways possible. When observing this powerful message, we must look at first Creon, arguably the tragic hero of this tale and his inability to understand the importance of respecting the dead. This incapabilities of Creon are made apparent multiple times through the entire tale and are amplified by his deadly flaw of pride. The main issue at hand in the tale is the conflict over the burial of two brothers. Creon allowed only one of the brothers to be buried with honor and damned the other to degradation and the removal of all his rites to a proper burial for his crime of “[coming] to burn this temple rigged with pillars” when he attempted revolution (73). While the crime of mutiny is a considerable one, it is still considered by many of the characters in contact with Creon to be unrighteous to deny the brother a proper burial. The brother died in battle for causes they believed in heartfully. Creon obviously didn't care for this at all, as he had made it law to deny him burial, even powerfully saying …show more content…

It won't taunt you or challenge you. It wont be patient for you or wait till your ready. Death will simply come and go. It will take what it has come for, without ever saying a single word. And in a matter of seconds, everything you love and loved will be gone forever. As your world falls still in a eerie darkness. Death is a divine being, who must be very intolerant and demands its respect. Sophocles understood this very well and attempted to teach the audience this message as well with his tragic hero Creon and the actions that befall him. Death is to be respected and the dead as well. You do not know what one has felt and experience in his lifetime nor why he died and for what cause. You must only understand with empathy that he is a human just like you, deserved the utmost respect despite the circumstances of his death. Dont fuck with

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