Antigone Pride Quotes

The classical Greek playwright Sophocles once wrote, “Think: all men make mistakes, / But a good man yields when he/ Knows his course is wrong, / And repairs the evil: / The only Crime is pride.” This quote means that a good person recognizes when he or she made a mistake and fixes it. When a person does not want to admit they made a mistake, because of their pride, then that is an “evil” act. Many people can relate to this quote and many people translate it in their own way as well. One may take notice of the world around them and relate it to this quote. The tragedy, Antigone, also relates to what Sophocles wrote. Near the end of the tragedy Antigone, Teiresias explained that many of Creon's actions created dreadful consequences, Creon finally accepted his actions as misguided. Creon tries his hardest to go back and make what he did right again. He went back and gave Polyneices a proper burial, then he went to let Antigone out, only to find his son there; hugging the dead girl’s body. Next, Haemon, Creon’s son, who should marry Antigone, kills himself. If Creon would listen to Antigone’s reasoning as to why …show more content…
Four years ago when my family traveled to Orlando, Florida, we went to Disney World. My sister, 13 years old, and my cousin, 17 years old, took one of the Legos from the Lego Store in Downtown Disney. They laughed at their actions and in a way they felt pride that they got away with it. Neither of them told anyone about the lousy decision. When we got back home from vacation my sister, unknowingly, left the Lego in her pant pocket. My mom started doing laundry and when she came past that Lego, my sister got in a world of trouble. My mom made her send the Lego back, along with an apology letter stating why she took it. I can remember my sister doing everything she could to get my parents to forgive her for stealing. My sister did not care about her pride, she cared about my parent’s