Wouldn’t thou do more than slay thy prisoner? Not I, thy life is mine, and that's enough. Why dally then? To me no word of thine is pleasant: God forbid it should please. Nor am I more acceptable to thee. And yet how otherwise had I achieved a name so glorious as by burying a brother. So my townsmen all would say, where they not gagged by terror, manifold a king's prerogatives, and not the least that’s all his acts and all his words are law.(497-506)
The first difference is gender. Creon, as a male ruler, is responsible for the welfare of the entire city. Antigone, as female, has a special role in the family, and particularly family burial rites. Thus both in doing their traditional tasks come into conflict with each other. In religion, Creon …show more content…
He has good, rational reasons for his laws and punishments. By the end of the play Creon’s hubris, or excessive pride, has taken over him, which leads to his demise. He does not realize how bad his hubris has interfered with his dealing of problems until Teiresias’s prophecy. By then it is too late. This is the path of a tragic character. The character has a hamartia, or tragic flaw. More often then not that tragic flaw is excessive pride, hubris. The character then goes through a peripetia, which is an ironic twist where the character realizes that things will not turn out the way he expected. Finally, the character has an anagnorisis, which is their epiphany that makes them realize their hamartia and see their place in the universe. Creon is the tragic character in the play “Antigone”.
A tragic character is of noble birth and endures a mighty fall on account of pride. The play's title indicates that Antigone is the tragic character; the plot of Antigone, however, indicates that Creon is the tragic character. They are both of noble birth; they are both proud; they both endure a mighty fall. Creon gets the edge as tragic character insomuch that he recognizes his foolishness too late. Antigone understands her fate from the beginning.
Fate plays a major role in Greek Tragedy. Fate plays a major role in Antigone. This is not a
The first difference is gender. Creon, as a male ruler, is responsible for the welfare of the entire city. Antigone, as female, has a special role in the family, and particularly family burial rites. Thus both in doing their traditional tasks come into conflict with each other. In religion, Creon …show more content…
He has good, rational reasons for his laws and punishments. By the end of the play Creon’s hubris, or excessive pride, has taken over him, which leads to his demise. He does not realize how bad his hubris has interfered with his dealing of problems until Teiresias’s prophecy. By then it is too late. This is the path of a tragic character. The character has a hamartia, or tragic flaw. More often then not that tragic flaw is excessive pride, hubris. The character then goes through a peripetia, which is an ironic twist where the character realizes that things will not turn out the way he expected. Finally, the character has an anagnorisis, which is their epiphany that makes them realize their hamartia and see their place in the universe. Creon is the tragic character in the play “Antigone”.
A tragic character is of noble birth and endures a mighty fall on account of pride. The play's title indicates that Antigone is the tragic character; the plot of Antigone, however, indicates that Creon is the tragic character. They are both of noble birth; they are both proud; they both endure a mighty fall. Creon gets the edge as tragic character insomuch that he recognizes his foolishness too late. Antigone understands her fate from the beginning.
Fate plays a major role in Greek Tragedy. Fate plays a major role in Antigone. This is not a