Power can be beneficial but when placed in the wrong hands, it can be devastating. Not only can power ruin people, but it can ruin civilizations. Power has a negative effect on others because one person can not successfully and peacefully control a large group of people. A leader needs to take others into account before making a decision regarding his people. In the play Antigone, King Creon makes all of his rules based on what he thinks is right. He does not care if the citizens agree or disagree with what he states, as long as they follow the rules he is okay. He thinks that since he is king he is always right. In an edict he made he states, “These are my principles… I have made the following decision concerning the sons of Oedipus…” (34-36).
