Creon values principles above all else. In Creon’s speech as king for the first time, he discusses the deaths of his two nephews, former king Etocles and Polyneices. Polyneices had created an army to betray his homeland on an attempt to capture his brother’s kingdom, they both fought gallantly and died in combat, Creon then states in his speech that no one is to touch the traitor Polyneices, and Etocles is to be buried with respect, he then later proclaims, “These are my principles, at any rate, that is why I have made the following decisions”(Sophocles 945). No matter what Creon actually thought, principles are how he made his “decisions.” Principles are what Creon lives by, no matter how he feels about the subject, he always makes the correct
