In the tragic story of Antigone, in order to help her family, she also has to go against them. Antigone’s brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, have just fought over who was to be king and both of them were killed leaving the country to Creon. The conflicts that progress in Antigone help develop the story into what it is today. By Creon not burying Polyneices’ body, Antigone going against him, Creon goings against the people, and finally Hemon going against his father and the state to prove his undying love for Antigone. After the sons of Oedipus had both died fighting for the throne, her Uncle Creon only wants to give Eteocles a proper burial. “The sons of Oedipus; Eteocles/Who in his country's/battle fought and fell,/The foremost champion--duly bury him/With all observances and ceremonies/That are the guerdon of the heroic dead.” (pg. 11). Creon sees as he was the oldest child he should of been king. Leaving Polyneices’ body on the battlefield, Antigone takes it upon herself to bury her dead brother. After arguing with her sister, “Go thine own way; myself will bury him.” (pg.8), she finally decides to do it. Creon posts guards at Polyneices’ body in order to keep the people, or Antigone, from burying him. But as soon as she does, she is caught and …show more content…
“A State for one man is no State at all.” (pg.31). He pleads with his father but is turned down and seals his fate, “Therefore no wedlock shall by me be held/More precious than thy loving governance.” (pg. 28). Haemon takes destiny into his own hands and decides that he too will go die in the cave with Antigone, “So she shall die, but one will die with her.” (pg 32). Creon does not respond well to this as he only wants to punish Antigone and sees his son following her to death as wrong, “Die then, and love the dead if thou must;/No woman shall be the master while I live.” (pg.23). And he does, Haemon follows Antigone to his
In the book, Antigone, written by Sophocles, Antigone, the protagonist, faces a decision that questions her loyalty to her family and King Creon. When she learns that both of her brothers have died in battle, but only Eteocles had received the proper burial, Antigone makes it a mission to give her dead sibling, Polyneices, a proper farewell. Due to Creon’s decree, the citizens of Thebes were forbidden to bury him. Antigone’s confident, honorable, and upstanding yet secretive personality clashes (or come in conflict) with Creon’s rule and edict, that later results in the deaths of multiple protagonists.
In the play it was expected that sons would respect and honor their fathers by following their wishes. Creon implies this when he rhetorically asks Haemon why men want sons and states, “It’s so the boy will punish his father’s enemies/And reward his friends-- as his father would” (643-644). This shows that it was expected of sons to follow closely in their father’s footsteps. Creon reminds Haemon of this because of his differing opinion on Antigone. Creon believes women are inferior to men and are mostly for pleasure, which is why he demands that Haemon find a new bride and admit Antigone deserves death for disobeying him.
In the Greek play, Antigone by Sophocles, a woman named Antigone is put in line for execution by her uncle and soon to be father-in-law, Creon, king of Thebes. The execution is ordered because Antigone is considered a traitor since she buried her brother Polyneices, who was also considered a traitor because he attacked the city of Thebes and the king of Thebes, his brother Eteocles. Some people of Thebes found that Antigone’s action was an action of honor and believed that it was unfair that she was going to be executed for it. Haemon, the son of Creon and Antigone’s fiancé found Antigone action honorable and was against his father’s decisions. Using ethos, pathos, and logos, Haemon was successful in convincing Creon to have pity for Antigone
Creon made a law declaring that no one was to bury Polyneices, since he killed some people of the kingdom. On the other hand Antigone, Polyneices sister believes that everyone should have a proper burial and that it was unfair, later on deciding to bury him. Which lead to the stories cliffhanger, making it continue. The main reason Antigone lead to greater events is because she was a rebel and the first to speak up.
Antigone finds herself in extreme agony when she hears that her ruler, King Creon will not allow the burial of her brother Polyneices. King Creon rules off his principles regarding friendship and loyalty
One example is when Creon ignores his son’s, Haemon, warnings against the dangers of his action and says to Haemon “you’ll pay- / taunting, insulting me! Bring her out, / that hateful-she’ll die now, here, / in front of his eyes, beside her groom!” (Sophocles 851-854). With Creon’s decision to kill Antigone, it causes a chain of death; first starting with Haemon’s death, followed by the death of Creon’s wife, Eurydice, and finally ending with Antigone’s death. Even so, Creon still takes pride over his decision and condemns those who defy his laws. At this point, Creon creates his own downfall and displays himself as a cruel person without mercy. By stating “Go down below and love, / if love you must-love the
You are not in a position to know everything” (218) Hamion who aggravatingly stresses antigone is innocent and Creons in acknowledgement listens with deaf ears and insults Hamion as well as Antigone; “Fool, adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman!” Haemon revolts with, understanding that his decree has made him a tyrant rather than a king who rules for his subjects “you want to talk but never to hear or listen”(221). Sophocles details Creons thoughts on the consequence of the “ruling the of law over other loyalties” . Creon adhering to the power of authority dismisses his son, by disregarding Antigone as Hamion’s wife and saying he will put her to death in front he will kill her in front of him ,showing his authority rather than solence . “ Bring the woman out! Let her die before his eyes! “ (222 )
In the beginning of Antigone, Creon created a law to not bury the corpse of his nephew, Polyneices, and leave him out to rot. Although he is not following the social belief, the religion says that all corpses should be respected and buried to move on to the afterlife. Polyneices was considered a “traitor” because he was fighting against his homeland by his brother, Eteocles, for royalty. Creon find Eteocles died with dignity and give him the respect. Antigone knew about the law and the consequence of breaking it, but she wants to bury Polynices in honor. “Antigone: But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime in holy; I shall lie down with him in death and I shall be as dear to him as he to me.” (55-58 Sophocles). After Antigone buried her brother and was found caught, Creon sent her to a cave where she will be punished
He agrees to do this and goes to the vault. It is in the vault when Haimon kills himself that Creon fully realizes what he has done. Antigonê does not have a realization the same way Creon does. Due to the fact that he has a peripeteia, anagnorisis, and hamartia, Creon is more of a tragic hero than
Creon is in a position of power to where only his rules matter and can overrule all others, because he is the divine law maker. After the death of the two brothers Creon thinks Polyneices is a traitor and should be punished. Creon states that, “Polyneices, who broke his exile to come back with fire and sword against his native city and the shrines of his father’s gods . . . is to have no burial” (Sophocles lines 217-224). Although Polyneices fought against the city Creon acts irrational towards Antigone in burying her brother due to the fact that he is a traitor. Antigone has a legitimate demand to bury her brother based on her morals and religion. She sees injustice when only one of the two brothers is buried and one a ceremony. She states, “There is nothing shameful in honoring my brother…the god of
Due to Creon’s pride and self centeredness he only thinks about himself and assumes that his son Haemon is threatening him. Really Haemon is saying that he will commit suicide if Antigone dies. Later in the play Haemon can not bare to see Antigone dead so he commits suicide. When Creon sees this he is very upset and feels guilty.
The story of Antigone, written by Sophocles, begins with Antigone disobeying King Creon’s order of not burying her brother Polynices. She decides to ignore the law, gets arrested, and placed in a cave where she ultimately hangs herself. Throughout time, many readers have argued who the tragic hero in the play truly is: Creon or Antigone. Both are born in a royal family and possess a tragic flaw that causes their downfall. Antigone is the tragic hero due to her devotion to her family, loyalty to the gods, and her stubbornness.
The first of Creons family to commit suicide is Antigone, even though Creon sentenced her to death she hung herself. “We saw her lying…she had made a noose of her fine linen veil.” Now even though Creon didn’t care much for Antigone, she was to be Haemon’s bride “…and bitterness at being robbed of his bride?”. Haemon loving Antigone, was already in a spite with his father, but because of Creon’s sentence to Antigone. Haemon was crying over the body of Antigone, and having seen his father went into a fit of crying rage and tried to attack his father but missed, then Haemon turned his sword on himself, either in an attempt to avoid punishment, or to be reunited with Antigone. When Creon’s wife Eurydice learns that Haemon had killed himself she then leaves to do the same. Creon at this point is completely destroyed mentally and spiritually therefore meeting a tragic end.
She asks him what more does he want than her arrest and execution, he replies “nothing. Then I have it all” (line 557) but it seems to be that Creon is waiting for Antigone to admit that she is wrong for rising against his law in order to restore his wounded pride. Furthermore, Creon becomes more frustrated because there seems to be a continuum of his pride being wounded as his son Haemon, tries to point out that, “no woman, they say ever deserved a death less and such a brutal death for such a glorious act” (line 777). Creon becomes agitated that his son’s argument is possibly right but, because Creon is corrupted by his pride he does not take Haemon’s view into