Creon

battle, each by the other’s hand, Creon displays the characteristics of a tragic hero due to his flaw of character, which leads to an error in judgement and then an irreversible mistake, an admission of his mistake and finally an excessive punishment for his failure. Creon’s tragic flaw, arrogance, is evident during his first lines of the play. He gives a speech addressing the battle and his new kingship. While establishing the first decision of his reign, Creon tells his countrymen that he…

Antigone. This play is tragic because Creon creates a lot of death that would have been preventable if it were not for his hubris. Throughout the play, the conversation that takes place between Creon and his son Haemon reveals this pride, emphasizing the tragedy of the deaths. Starting on page 138 of the novel, Haemon and Creon have a conversation that reveals the various forms Creon’s pride takes. During the beginning of the conversation, they talk about Antigone and Creon refuses to remove the…

Haemon comes in and tells his father he will accept his ruling, due to the long authority Creon has over him. Haemon refers to him as his "good advisor" and will follow any path Creon sees best for him. This pleases Creon because as he sees it, his "word is law in all things." He goes on ranting on the importance of a good son and advises him to forget Antigone. Creon tells Haemon she has gone against his rules and he does not want his people to see him break his word. Despite their kinship he,…

filled with pride. In the play "Antigone" by Sophocles, Sophocles clearly makes it seem like Creon is a leader more than anything. He has good and rational reasons on why he states his punishments the way he does. Creon has something called a "hubris". A hubris is a person with excessive pride. He goes through a phase in the play where he realizes that things are not going the way they were planned. This makes Creon the tragic character of Antigone. Creon's tragic flaw is his hubris. This…

In the play, Antigone, Sophocles develops Creon as a tragic hero by establishing his hubristic nature, in order to emphasize how excessive pride and arrogance results in the tragic downfall of an individual. When the reader is first introduced to Creon, his overly arrogant nature is evident through his interactions with others. After arresting Antigone and sentencing her to death, Haimon goes to his father and implores him to free his fiancee. Creon, in response to his son, justifies his…

Sophocles the protagonist, Creon, discovers that Antigone is going against his word and attempts to follow the Laws of the Gods. Told in third person point-of-view, the author supports his theme by describing the setting of a strict ruling city, establishing the central conflict of Antigone disobeying the Laws of Man. This affects the work as a whole because the author’s purpose is to portray Creon as a tragic hero in order to advise the audience the transformation Creon showed throughout the…

matter what. The newly appointed king Creon made a declaration that no one is to touch the dead body of the traitor Polycienes or there would be a huge amount of punishment. Antigone both the niece of Creon and the sister of Polycienes, buried her brother’s dead body. While in a conversation between Creon and his son Hameon, Creon still unsure what to do about Antigone. “I’ll suppose [Antigone will] please ‘family ties’...If I permit my own family to rebel,” Creon advocates, “How shall I earn…

plays which portraits many life issues and situations that we see on our daily life. Although most will argue that Antigone is the true hero of the story I will be one of the few to say that Creon was the both hero and victim of this story and because of his pride, ego, and loyalty met his ultimate demise. Creon is a complex character that starts of the story as a strong ruler with harsh rules in order to put order in the city of Thebes after an invasion at the hands of Polynices. To me he is…

appointed king, Creon,…

In the novel Oedipus Creon cares for his family more than anything this is shown when travels to Thebes to help not only the people of Thebes but his family get rid of the plague “I sent Menoeceus’ son Creon, Jocasta’s brother, to Apollo, to his pythian temple”(70) creon drops everything and travels to assist them in the problem that has arised some might suggest hat this could have been a test by both Oedipus and the Gods. Creon was never pressured to take action or help the people he could…