Antigone

Antigone Creon is the king in the play Antigone. Antigone is about a princess, Antigone, who buries her brother after he and her other brother fought each other to death. As a result, King Creon wants to punish/kill Antigone for this while still him remembering that he had raised her. Due to the brothers fighting to death, a place to be king opened up for Creon to become the new king. The quote, “Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other,” is by Carl Jung. The quotation relates to how when Creon wasn’t king, he ruled by love, but when he became king, his love lacked and ruled by pride and power. The quotation by Carl Jung relates to Creon one way by how Creon, before he was king, ruled by love. This ruling by love was evident when Creon raised Oedipus’ four kids. He was a father to them and took care of them. Whenever he could, he would settle things as if he were their father, by love, and was fair to them before he became king. An example of Creon’s fairness to them was since both of Oedipus’ sons were both next in line to be king, Creon made a deal with them which was that the sons take turns with each other being the king for a year. Creon had his own blood-related son, Haemon, who in a scene argues with Creon, “Antigone is as much your daughter as I am your son…you, to your own son, are seeking to take away what I love most without reason” (1.3.8-91)? What Haemon was meaning was that Creon loves Anitgone as a daughter. Creon, before blinded by power and pride, ruled by love and not by will power. Another way how Carl Jung’s quote relates to King Creon is by how when Creon became king, his love lacked, and ruled by power and pride. Whenever King Creon learned of Antigone being the one who buried her brother, his pride and power clouded his judgment. “girl guilty of treason. Breaking the given laws...[your death] gives me everything” (1.2.81-94). The referenced