Creon And Antigone: Play Analysis

In the play Antigone, Creon and Antigone are very different when it comes to what they think is right. Creon is stuck up, rude and doesn't listen to what anyone else says but Antigone does what she believes is right no matter what the consequence is. There different but they're similar because they're both stubborn and they think that what they're doing is right but for different reasons. It's a tragic play with a lot of emotions and death, in the beginning Antigone's brothers fight for who should be king but they end up killing each other and Creon made it illegal to bury Polyneices but Antigone doesn't think it's fair for one brother to get buried and not her other brother. In the middle Antigone buries her brother and is caught. In the end three …show more content…
Creon tells the Chorus ¨Don't speak of her being here, her life is over.¨ He is still hard headed and before she is even dead he doesn't want people speaking of her because to him her life is over. I think it develops him into a tragic hero because this is his free choice and it's a bad choice because he doesn't listen to anyone else but in the end he is going to regret killing her. Antigone says ¨But you chose life, it was my choice to die.¨ This quote develops a theme in the play because she is determined to show Creon she doesn't care because in her eyes she chooses to die instead of live she says to her sister because her family is cursed and there going to have to live with it because there childern of insest. She has no shame in what she did and she didn't see a reason to live anymore but she wanted both of her brothers to have a good after life not just one. They have very different thoughts but they're both hard headed about it and don't give up on their idea of right but in the end it was a bad choice for Creon because he now feels her