Creon's Decisions In Antigone

Creon and Antigone are faced with decisions where the outcome wouldn’t be altruistic for anyone involved. Antigone is faced with the decision of whether to bury her brother who died in combat or not.“Creon has sworn no one shall bury him, no one mourn for him, but his body must lie in the fields”.(Ant.Pro.15) Antigone goes to her sister Ismene and asks her if she would help bury their brother [Eteocles]. As the conversation moves forward, it looks more and more like Ismene won’t help. Antigone keeps pushing Ismene; finally Ismene snaps and replies to Antigone with, “You are mad!”(emphasis added) Only a reaction to Antigone’s assertiveness Ismene offends Antigne to a point where antigone feels that she has to commit this crime to prove her point. So Antigone says, “I will bury the brother I love”. As antigone tries to camouflage her stubbornness with a little jab to her …show more content…
He can stubbornly enforce his newly stated law and execute his niece for burying her brother or show her grace for doing what she thought was right. Antigone is accused of the crime and seems to welcome Creon’s condemnation. She says,”I beg you: kill me. This talking is a great weariness; your words are distasteful to me, and I am sure that mine seem so to you.”(Ant.2.94-96) Creon ends up choosing to banish Antigone to a cave so he could keep his hands clean. Antigone stays in the jail being fed and cared for but the real punishment is being seperated from her fiance [Haemon]. Antigone ends up commiting suicide and that brings a curse upon Creon. If only Creon and Antigone weren’t as stubborn as they were. Creon is responsible for the deaths of Haemon and Antigone which were catalyst of his decision to “execute” Antigone. If he hadn’t been so stubborn then Creon would be without a curse and would still have his son and daughter in-law/niece. If antigone had been a little less prideful and listened to her sister no one be apart of the mess she