Compromise In Antigore, By Sophocles Antigone

Compromise is something most people experience every day, whether it is deciding on what to eat for lunch or choosing when to do homework. In Sophocles’s Antigone, Creon has trouble compromising throughout the story. Through Creon’s bias and hubris, Sophocles demonstrates that the ability to compromise is necessary in order to keep a stable society. Creon’s bias against others shows that compromise is mandatory to keep society steady. When the leader brings up the possibility of the gods burying Polynices, Creon gets mad and accuses the sentry of bribery. He says that there is “[nothing] worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting” than money and that it can “demolish cities, root men from their homes” (Antigone Lines 335-337). Creon is biased against money because he believes

This distrust of others leads Creon to make decisions by himself, such as his decision to make the edict that Polynices was to remain unburied. Because of this, Thebes becomes more of a tyranny, rather than a democracy, as Creon does not trust his subjects to make the right decision. However, if Creon had learned to compromise with the citizens, things would not have turned out so horrifically. As well as this, Creon’s bias against women leads him to act harshly towards Antigone. Creon tells his son Haemon to “never lose your sense of judgement over a woman” and that it is “better to fall from power… at the hands of a man一never be rated inferior to a woman” (Antigone Lines 723-724, 759-761). This bias against women causes Creon to be ruthless towards Antigone, and he threatens to give her a brutal death. His bias drives him to want to exact revenge towards for his own personal