In Antigonê, Sophocles describes the type of pride that allows men to create laws that substitute for divine principles. Antigonê threatened the status quo, at stake was not only the order of the state, but Creon’s pride and sense of himself as a king and more fundamentally, a man. Antigonê plunged ahead purely on self-belief and her firm convictions of right and wrong. The conflict themes between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old, between conscience and law, and between divine law and moral or human law, are all themes that continue to plague our society today. Creon believed that the greatest evil that society faces is rebelliousness and disloyalty and that, combined with the belief at the time that men were far superior to woman, seemed to force the inevitable self-injury and suicide that were universally prevalent among the main characters of the story. King Creon’s stubborn arrogance and pride cost him everything in his life that was dear to him
In Antigonê, Sophocles describes the type of pride that allows men to create laws that substitute for divine principles. Antigonê threatened the status quo, at stake was not only the order of the state, but Creon’s pride and sense of himself as a king and more fundamentally, a man. Antigonê plunged ahead purely on self-belief and her firm convictions of right and wrong. The conflict themes between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old, between conscience and law, and between divine law and moral or human law, are all themes that continue to plague our society today. Creon believed that the greatest evil that society faces is rebelliousness and disloyalty and that, combined with the belief at the time that men were far superior to woman, seemed to force the inevitable self-injury and suicide that were universally prevalent among the main characters of the story. King Creon’s stubborn arrogance and pride cost him everything in his life that was dear to him