Creon

upheavals in religion, social and economical spheres of Thebans. In search of retrieval from this plague, the hero of the play Oedipus endeavored by tooth and nail. Only in this case he somewhat appeared as a worried leader for his nation he sent Creon to Delphi, where god Apollo discloses the hidden secrets. So that they…

fate. The work is a classic example of the Greek tragedy; and Oedipus is a canonic tragic hero. While character’s life has examples of heroic actions, Sophocles mentioned them only on the background. Final scenes, when Oedipus blinds himself and asks Creon to kill him, are tragic, not heroic. The protagonist of the play fully corresponds to signs of the tragic hero, created by Aristotle and complemented by other ancient Greek philosophers. According to Aristotle, this type of character has three…

When Antigone decides to bury her brother Polynices and give him a proper burial, she is taking a stand against power. But she believes that it is a duty of hers and that “she is doing what [she] must” (195). Although Creon issued the edict, Antigone thinks the gods are against it. This contrasts with Oedipus in that he is against the gods with the truth while Antigone is with them. She thinks of divine power as a greater universal truth than one of simply a king who…

named Polyneices and Eteocles who have both been killed in Thebes’ civil war. The new king of Thebes named Creon wants Eteocles to be honored and Polyneices to be disgraced. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers, and Antigone wants to bury Polyneices, but Ismene refuses to help her, fearing the death penalty. One of the themes in the play Antigone would have to be pride. Creon creates a law because he believes it is divine will that is the ultimate display of punishable pride,…

we can see that Antigone actually impacted Creons’ life because after her untimely death, she took a piece of his family as well by having Haimon commit suicide, which then caused Eurydice to cut herself and left without a child and wife: “She drove the blade below her liver, so she could suffer the same wound that killed Haimon, for whom she mourns” (Sophocles, 85). Her being a woman also affected the way the King handled her crime. For instance, Creon doesn’t want to look soft as if he were a…

This meaning a character of high status or great power. Creon being the king, wanted Thebes to go back to the way it was, especially after the killing of the former king. With his power, he declared that Polyneices was to not receive a proper burial, and leave him out stranded so vultures and other animals could…

shows the importance of fate and destiny. The deed of not only burying a traitor to the state of Greece, but also the man being her brother as well, brought into the light the care and respect Antigone has for Polynieces. In the dialogue between Creon, the king, defying…

are both prideful and will die for what they believe in whether it is against the law or not. They are also related in the way that they both were self-convicted. They basically allowed themselves to die and they chose to. Antigone could have told Creon that she did not bury her brother, but she felt it was her duty to die and take responsibilities for her actions. She wanted the consequence she deserved. Oedipus and Antigone have different qualities because Oedipus was strongly hated unlike…

-Teiresias” “How dare you to utter shameful words like this? Do you think you can get away with this?-Oedipus” Because of Oedipus anger he never listened to any word that the prophet has to say and blame Creon his brother in law for the loyalty that he has to the king even though he knows to himself that Creon will never betray him. And it was also his anger that pushed him to kill his own father. “In my rage, I lashed out at the driver, who was shoving me aside. The old man…..I hit him with a…

Oedipus Rex, a tragic hero crushed because of his hamartia, was not a perfect man by any means. He had all he wanted, but by the end of the story everything he thought was true turned out to be untrue. Although Oedipus considered fate to be real, he had more confidence in his own knowledge and achievements to control his future. Also, Oedipus’ dependence on himself made his purpose and insight the best way to establish all of his decisions. Oedipus was very short tempered and tended to get…