Importance Of Choices In Antigone

A quote from an anonymous author states, “You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.” This quote portrays the idea that we are all capable of choosing all the choices we want in life, but we aren’t able to choose the outcomes of these decisions we make, especially if they're negative. While everyone makes mistakes and bad choices from time to time, it is what we consider when making these choices that is what’s important. This idea is emphasized in Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, where the protagonist Creon being hard-headed and not willing to consider others’ opinions, although wise can often lead to a great tragedy, like Creon acting on without listening to others. It lead to his own son and wife to kill …show more content…
Tiresias, just informed of this situation, jumps to conclude that the Sentry is the one that has committed the treason. When in fact, Antigone was the one to, and the Sentry was truthful to his word. Creon being hard headed and not being able to accept that he is wrong snaps back at the Sentry and threatens his life if he does not find the sinner, “Enough of that! Or I shall lose my patience. Don’t talk like an old fool...No more; each word you say but stings me more” (134). Unsatisfied with how the Sentry is able to talk back to him and defend himself, Creon speaks back with authority. He addresses the Sentry as “an old fool” to show he is greater than him, and that he nothing but an unwisely person that is irrelevant. Creon is unable to accept that he is wrong and chooses to believe he is right just because of the fact that he is greater in authority. But, this foolish way of thinking leads to his next tragedy, the death of his wife, “She drove the sharp sword home into her heart...I am nothing. I have no life” (Sophocles 161). Eurydice, the wife to Creon and mother to their son Haemon, killed herself after hearing the news of her son’s death. She could not bare to live knowing that her son was no longer alive, and so she drove the sword “home” into her heart. A home is where peace and love lives and without her son she was not able to feel those things anymore, so so killed/”homed” the sword into herself to find her peace and love back. At the end of this quote Creon also describes his life as “nothing” because he is left with nothing to love for anymore, he sacrificed his family because he was hard-headed and didn't listen to the advice of those who were wiser. Even though they warned him of what was to come, he still let this stubbornness take