How Does Creon Change In Antigone

Antigone is a play about a young girl and her uncle whose beliefs conflict with one another. Creon is the king and has made a law about traitors and how they are prohibited from having a proper burial. Antigone’s love for her brother, Polyneices was unconditional that she had no choice but to against the law, even though she knew what Creon’s harsh punishment would be for breaking the law. Creon was a determine King and refused to back away from his law even if Antigone ignored it. As a King, he was forced not show his weakness because it would result in him being overthrown for letting a woman have an effect on him. So a result, Antigone punishment for breaking his law was public stoning, and he sentenced her to die in a cave where she would starve to death. …show more content…
The death of Antigone led to some events that the King never saw coming. The first tragic event would be the death of his son. Haemon was Creon and Eurydice’s son, who was next in line to the throne with Antigone as his wife. Haemon was set up to marry Antigone, but that changed once his father sentenced her to death and he soon turned on his father. Haemon was outraged by the death of his future wife that he tried to kill his father. He wanted to break the father and son bond they once had by “drawing his double-hilted sword. As his father ran to escape him, Haemon failed to strike him, and the poor wretch in anger at himself leaned on his sword and drove it halfway in, into his ribs” (Sophocles 1595). Haemon was incomplete without Antigone that he couldn’t stand being apart from her, so he had to take his life. Creon was in distraught about his son killing