There’s always that one kid in class who seem to know almost every answer to all questions given. You may even know this kid as the teacher 's pet. This student will act like they know everything and look down on everyone as if they’re little children learning their lefts and rights. This person can be connected to Creon, except instead of being a student he is a king and does have the higher authority over everybody. The play Antigone by Sophocles is about how Antigone and Ismene come to help their brothers in war, only to find out that two of their brothers are dead, one of them being banned from a proper burial by Creon, Antigone’s Uncle, who inherited the throne after their deaths. Antigone, of course, is furious and gives polyneices the
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His pride is too consumable, keeping him from being able to bring himself to his senses and admit that he is wrong. Creon even says “In all of Thebes, you’re the only one who looks at things this way” in lines 576-577, after Antigone argued with him that no one honored the law Creon had created. Creon is seeing Antigone as someone who believes all the wrong things, too stubborn to open his mind and see that she could have sensible reasonings to her beliefs, that he could be doing the wrong thing. Additionally, in the beginning of the play, the reasoning in Creon placing a law forbidding a proper burial of Polyneices was because he had fought along the enemy’s side. Creon did believe that he was doing the right thing himself but did not let his mind reveal itself to the consequences the gods could place upon him. “An enemy can never be a friend, not even in death” (lines 597) responds Creon after Antigone attempts to explain to him that the dead that do wrong can be forgiven and have a proper burial. Which shows that he is showing determination, driven by his stubbornness to always be correct in what he says, believing that he could never be wrong. Once everyone starts speaking against what he believed he declares to be right and wrong he turns his head away and does not listen. Creon could handle this situation more professionally and he probably could but instead, he decided to be rude when it was
His pride is too consumable, keeping him from being able to bring himself to his senses and admit that he is wrong. Creon even says “In all of Thebes, you’re the only one who looks at things this way” in lines 576-577, after Antigone argued with him that no one honored the law Creon had created. Creon is seeing Antigone as someone who believes all the wrong things, too stubborn to open his mind and see that she could have sensible reasonings to her beliefs, that he could be doing the wrong thing. Additionally, in the beginning of the play, the reasoning in Creon placing a law forbidding a proper burial of Polyneices was because he had fought along the enemy’s side. Creon did believe that he was doing the right thing himself but did not let his mind reveal itself to the consequences the gods could place upon him. “An enemy can never be a friend, not even in death” (lines 597) responds Creon after Antigone attempts to explain to him that the dead that do wrong can be forgiven and have a proper burial. Which shows that he is showing determination, driven by his stubbornness to always be correct in what he says, believing that he could never be wrong. Once everyone starts speaking against what he believed he declares to be right and wrong he turns his head away and does not listen. Creon could handle this situation more professionally and he probably could but instead, he decided to be rude when it was