What does Creon represent in Antigone?
As the king of Thebes in Antigone, Creon is a complete autocrat, a leader who identifies the power and dignity of the state entirely with himself.
What personality trait do Creon and Antigone share?
Both Antigone and Creon are strong, confident characters. Their stubbornness is shown in their eagerness in the actions they take, and how they will not back out. Antigone has set her mind on burying her brother Polynices, a crime to be punished by Creon with death.
What qualities does Creon profess to value in a leader?
The quality that Creon values is complete and utter control. He believes that a leader should do what is best for his people and personal relationships should not affects their decisions, but goes against this by behaving in a way that is like a dictator, abusing his power and using against the people of Thebes.
Is Creon a villain in Antigone?
King Creon plays an interesting role in Sophocles’s play Antigone. He is the title character’s antagonist, or adversary, but he isn’t a villain. He is like the strict parents who make their children clean the house before going out with friends.
What is Creon’s personality?
Creon is powerfully built, but a weary and wrinkled man suffering the burdens of rule. A practical man, he firmly distances himself from the tragic aspirations of Oedipus and his line. As he tells Antigone, his only interest is in political and social order.
Why did Antigone go against Creon?
Antigone goes against Creon’s law fully aware of the fact that she will have to sacrifice her own life. She goes ahead because she feels she is morally and ethically right. Antigone believed that divine law was more important than human law. Antigone refused to let Creon dictate what she she should do.
Does Creon think haemon will really eliminate himself?
Haemon means that he will eliminate himself if Creon kills Antigone. Creon thinks that Haemon means that he will eliminate Creon.
What’s the moral conflict between Antigone and Creon?
Antigone has lost every member of her family, except for her sister, and feels morally obligated to honor both of her brothers despite the circumstances of their deaths. She is outraged that Creon chose to honor Eteocles, but not Polyneices, and feels that she must set things right or suffer in the afterlife.
What does Antigone do when she is brought before Creon?
What does Antigone do when she is brought before Creon? What does Ismene do when she is brought before Creon? She tries to take some of the blame for burying Polyneices. What does Ismene argue about with Antigone to try to convince Creon not to eliminate her.
What prophecy does Teiresias reveal?
A boy leads in Tiresias, the blind soothsayer of Thebes. Creon swears that he will obey whatever advice Tiresias gives him, since he owes so much to his past advice. Tiresias tells him that his refusal to bury Polynices and his punishment of Antigone for the burial will bring the curses of the gods down on Thebes.
What is the conflict between Creon and Tiresias?
The conflict between the king and the prophet echoes the conflict between Creon and Antigone. Once again we see the laws of man butting heads with the ancient laws of the gods. When Creon refuses to give in, Teiresias drops the knowledge that Creon’s own family will die as a result of his blasphemous actions.
What underlying value does Antigone state in her argument with Creon?
What underlying value does Antigone state in her argument with Creon? She says the law of the gods is above the law of the state.
What are the principal similarities and differences between Antigone and Creon?
The main difference between Antigone and Creon is that Antigone is loyal to her family, but Creon is loyal to the state. Antigone and Creon are the two main characters in Sophocles’ play Antigone. They also appear in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, which depict events that take place before the events of Antigone.
What is the relationship between Antigone and Creon?
The relationship between Creon and Antigone in the play written by Sophocles was that they were uncle and niece to each other.
What two crimes does Creon accuse Antigone of?
Creon accuses Antigone of “double insolence”– what are her two crimes in his view? Of what crime does Creon accuse Ismene on page 764, lines 88-92? Creon accuses Ismene of breaking the law that she could not bury her brother even though she did not do it.
What does Creon accuse Antigone of doing?
Antigone confronts Creon, says that she chose to obey divine law rather than his law, and repeats her willingness to die (441-470). Creon accuses her of hubris and of acting like a man; he suspects Ismene too (471-496).
Who attempts to eliminate Creon?
When Creon arrived at the tomb where she was to be left, his son Haemon threatens him and tries to eliminate him, but ends up taking his own life.
Why does Creon decide not to bury Polyneices?
Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. Creon also declared that Polyneices would not receive a proper burial because he committed treason against his own city.
What is the point of haemon’s argument with Creon?
Creon believes that that king must always be obeyed, and that only people who obey can be honored and trusted. Haemon’s argument: Haemon wants to save Antigone because he loves her, and he and others of the city believe that her crime should be forgiven.
How does Creon react to haemon’s arguments?
The main weaknesses Creon reveals about his own character are authoritarianism and too high an opinion of his own rectitude. He reacts to Haemon’s criticism not by listening carefully to what Haemon is saying but by emphasizing how the father must have authority over the son and the ruler over his subjects.