Creon Essay

Sophocles, in his book “Antigone”, identities Creon as the tragic hero that falls due to his hubris: being prideful, stubborn, and arrogant. A tragic hero is one who is in or born into a high rank and later loses respect, power, or honor because of a tragic flaw that the hero had. Creon inherited the throne after fate took the lives of Polynices and Eteocles, Creon later makes a law that forbids anyone from buring the traitor Eteocles because he had killed his own people. He later sees himself…

conflicts that created the plot of the story. There are two main conflicts and they are between Creon and Antigone, and Creon and Haemon. There are also many smaller controversies that make the story have its conflict, that’s why it is essential for respectful conversation between two opposing views. Although the conflict between Antigone and Creon is important to the story, the conflict between Haemon and Creon is the conflict that set up the climax of the play. For the first example of why it…

pride can prove to be a fatal flaw. At the start of the play, both Antigone and Creon seem to be morally justified in their quests. Antigone simply wants to bury her brother, who had died in battle, but Creon demands that nobody touch the body because he had died fighting against Thebes. When Creon finds out Antigone buried the body, he punished her severely. But once Antigone gains the will of the people to her side, Creon grows prideful and paranoid, which will eventually lead to his downfall.…

greek tragic playwright. The main characters are Creon and Antigone, but as the play goes on it becomes more about Creon and his hamartia. Hamartia is a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero. A character named Teiresias who is a prophet serves as a foil for Creon’s character by highlighting Creon’s stubbornness, anger, and disrespect towards the other characters. When Teiresias passes his argument in support of Antigone, Creon stubbornly refuses to listen. For example…

demonstrates the consequences of hubris with Creon, the Theban king, as he suffers by losing everyone close to him. Creon is a man who has just become the king of Thebes and has a flaw of having too much pride. He can’t control the power of being over other people and he just lets the power go to his head. In getting his new power, Creon institutes a law that states that only Eteocles will be buried with full honor and Polyneices “must be left unburied” (229). Creon warns the citizens by…

1. Creon believes that he is always obsoletely right. People should follow his own rules and, once it is made, he also has to follow it, because he is fearful that people look down at him when he changes it easily. Even thought after knowing that Antigone is the person who buried his prohibited brother, he kept following his rules very harshly. Creon command to put Antigone in the under guard permanently. He had never given up on his first decision. However, his son, Haemon, tries to…

The character Creon was very strong willed. He was focused solely on pulling Thebes away from the terrible times that have plagued it since Oedipus left the city blinded and disgraced. Creon was so focused on this task that he would have done almost anything to fix the problems he saw. Creon’s son Haemon on the other hand was not particularly concerned with matters of state. Haemon was young and in love and this was the most important thing to him. These two had very different opinions on what…

decisions that lead to a tragic conclusion. However utilizing the ideas presented in Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy, is is clear that the true tragic hero of this Greek play is Creon. Although the story deals with the demise of Antigone in her quest to honor both her brother and the gods, the true misfortune of this tragedy is that of Creon who through excessive pride, ultimately loses all that is dear to him and learns to regret his actions and decisions. Aristotle's theory identifies that…

serious error in judgement, and realize they have made an irreversible mistake show that Creon is a tragic hero. In the story Antigone she struggles with the law when trying to bury her brother. King Creon made a law that anyone who tries to bury him would be killed. Antigone thought that wasn't fair and she risked her life to do it. Creon catches antigone and sentences her to death. As the story progresses Creon starts to show tragic hero characteristics.Born Into nobility, doomed to make a…

divert from this vision is when they cause harm both to their reputation and to their people. In Antigone, the king of Thebes, Creon, orders Antigone to death after she disobeys his law. He decreed that the body of Antigone’s brother Polynices would not be buried, in opposition to the gods’ mandate regarding burial. Against the advice of many, in particular, his son Haemon, Creon persists with this order, believing that any modification of his decision would somehow diminish his authority. In…