Creon, Oedipus, Sophocles Conformity And Nonconformity

Conformity and nonconformity is a large issue in society during all ages. All humans conform in one-way or another. In Noam Shpancers article he explains both parts of conformity and how it works when he says, “ we rely on two independent yet related types of social cues… (Informative cues)… (Normative cues)” (Shpancer 1). These cues are both important and useful to conforming in society, as the help people see what’s going on and what other people are doing. People constantly use these cues everyday to make choices all day. These cues tell someone weather to laugh or to cry, be mad or be happy. In the play Antigone, there’s a lot of conforming and not conforming but the two main nonconformists but conformists at the same time are Creon and …show more content…
Although most of them were bad he tried to make up for them. Some of his many bad decisions was being stubborn and being closed minded, Sophocles shows this when Creon says, “ I have made the following decision concerning the sons of Oedipus: Eteocles… is to be buried with full military honors… Polyneices, I say is to have no burial” (Sophocles 777). This is showing his stubbornness by showing how he cant change his mind for his nephews whom he should love unconditionally even if that person was traitor ever one deserves to have a proper burial. Creon, unknowingly, made the decision to make his law impossible to remove, or so he thought. Creon thinks what he is doing is so right that no one else can be right except him. Creon believes so strongly that a traitor can and should never be treated with respect or honored and it leads him to this comment, “ as long as I am king, no traitor is going to be honored with the loyal man… he shall have my respect while he is living, and reverenced when he is dead” (Sophocles 777). Sophocles is saying that the traitor should not be honored ever because he has betrayed his family and country. Where as the loyal man shall have respect while alive and dead because he has defended and tried to protect his country with his life earning him that respect. After Hamion threatens to kill himself if Creon continued with his plan Creon decides to continue with the plan …show more content…
Ismene is a whole different story she only knows how to conform making it difficult for her to make her on choices and making her own ideas. In Logan Feys Article The Sociology of Leopard Man, Feys makes a great point by saying, “Conformity can be seen as the worlds most prevalent and most pernicious psychological disorder” (Feys 1). Logan Feys is trying to say that conformity is the cause of some of today’s worst psychological diseases, which, in thought, would make it the world’s most deadly diseases. Conformity and nonconformity are a big issue is society that will always be around; it’s just a matter of how people deal with