Antigone Vs Creon Character Analysis

Often, people think their actions are for the benefit of others. In reality, those actions could potentially be harmful. People pursuit their thoughts and actions too far because they are often stubborn. In result, they end up realizing what they did was wrong after they have done harm to others. A story, which follows those events, is called a tragedy. A tragic protagonist in a story or play would be in a similar situation. In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Creon, the present king of Thebes, and his niece Antigone both seem to fit the characteristics of a tragic protagonist. Through Creon and Antigone, Sophocles analyzes the characteristics of a tragic protagonist. Sophocles presents theses characteristics through Creon and Antigone’s …show more content…
Although, there comes a time where what you do is not going to be right, and you cannot continue to pursue it without consequences. This is called being stubborn, refusing to accept other people’s point of views and decisions. Antigone would not change her mind about defying Creon’s law in order to bury Polynices. Her stubbornness blurred her mind from making rational decisions. She did not think that maybe the Gods would not save her. In the end Sophocles shows how stubbornness can lead to downfall by the death of Antigone caused by her stubbornness to defy the law. Creon is also a stubborn character. Towards the middle of the play, he makes so many bad decisions but is not willing to confess he is wrong. “ This slander of yours— are you aware you’re speaking to the king?” (Sophocles 114) said Creon to Tiresias, a prophet. Tiresias was trying to explain to Creon how he has gone to far with his foolish decisions, but Creon would not listen to Tiresias. In fact, instead of listening to Tiresias, he insults him. His stubbornness carries his actions all the way to the end of the book, until he admits he is wrong, but by then it is far too late to do