The Important Role of Pride in Sophocles' Antigone

In the novel Antigone by Sophocles, there is much betrayal in the novel, that a enormous quantity of the novel is generally about family, pride, and a drastic amount of drama. In the novel Antigone, the king Creon who was passed the thrown from Etocles because his brother Polynecies killed him for the ruling of Thebes but they both ended dying and Creon does not let anyone bury the body of Polynecies because he was a trader fighting against his brother and Thebes. Antiogone who is the sister of the brothers disobeys Creon and his order. When she buries her brother, she ends up getting caught and Creon sends her to be buried alive. When the blind profit tells Creon that the gods were good all along Creon repents and goes to let Antigone out but it is to late a mischief has happened. Now Creon will have to spend his life in agony looking back upon his mistakes.

Antigone the daughter of Oedipus is a strong believer who fights for what is right, Antigone’s moral authority is to the gods, and she will do anything to obey if it means getting killed she will suffer if she knows it is for as large cause. When Antigone’s two brothers killed each other Polynices was considered a trader for fighting against his brother’s country, and Etocles was buried a hero fighting for his country of Thebes. Because of such tragedy, the throne was embedded with Creon name who is the uncle of Antigone. In this time, the Greeks believed that if the dead were not buried that there body would never be in peace. Antigone stated that Creon would do the unpredictable, “But the body of Polynices who died miserably…He’s to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for the birds that field and feast to their heart’s content”(60). Antigone feels that she should...

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...too late, you see what justice means.” Creon responds “ Oh I’ve learned through blood and tears!...Oh the agony , the heartbreaking agonies of our lives…Take me away, I beg of you, out of sight. A rash indiscriminate fool! (127).” At the end of the story Creons figures out that Antigone was right along it was a tradition that he didn’t follow. So as a result Creon must suffer alive and let the birds pick as his body if he was a dead corps not being buried because he does not deserve it. Creon puts everything to blame on himself but that is what happens when you have too much pride in yourself and never take anyone’s words into consideration. As a result, he must suffer a lonely cruel life without his family.

In conclusion, one must never get too caught up into ones pride. You will either lose everyone that you care about and live with guilt the rest of your life.