Antigone paper
Antigone Essay
Pride is a powerful emotion, it can lead us to be people we are not, and lead us to be hurt. The act of being prideful comes from the power we are given through society, to say we are something others cannot say they are. Its also what makes everyone who they are, but too much pride can seize control of us causing an uproar of karma to surge our way. In Antigone, the blind prophet, Tiresias warns Creon that, “A corpse for a corpse the price, and flesh for flesh, one of your own begotten.” Furthermore he states, “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” In Antigone the real crime is to be unjust with your power, just because you have power does not mean you have to use it, so it is shown throughout history, and in our media that certain examples exhibit this behavior. This is the major downfall in their ways, for example: Rome, King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible, and even in our kids shows certain cartoons exemplify pride, teaching kids that it is wrong such as Sandy in Spongebob. Each character exhibit this prideful quality, in which in turn each has led to their down fall of some kind, and with this unjust power they have been reprimanded in some way. Sure the quote could be retaining to Antigone, Creon, potentially all the characters of the story, though the real audience it is preaching to is all of man-kind. Everyone has their flaws and faults, because pride is in all of us, it is human nature to take pride in all of our work. The overwhelming flaw in human nature is to be consumed by this beast of pride, to take control of the chains of power and keep our pride in check. Pride is a scary thing; Antigone kept her pride in check, though when Creon is consumed by his pride it becomes his fault. Thus it reveals to us that Creon is the tragic hero in which his hamartia is revealed, which in turn is his pride. The first of which was Rome, who was a prosperous,
Pride is a powerful emotion, it can lead us to be people we are not, and lead us to be hurt. The act of being prideful comes from the power we are given through society, to say we are something others cannot say they are. Its also what makes everyone who they are, but too much pride can seize control of us causing an uproar of karma to surge our way. In Antigone, the blind prophet, Tiresias warns Creon that, “A corpse for a corpse the price, and flesh for flesh, one of your own begotten.” Furthermore he states, “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” In Antigone the real crime is to be unjust with your power, just because you have power does not mean you have to use it, so it is shown throughout history, and in our media that certain examples exhibit this behavior. This is the major downfall in their ways, for example: Rome, King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible, and even in our kids shows certain cartoons exemplify pride, teaching kids that it is wrong such as Sandy in Spongebob. Each character exhibit this prideful quality, in which in turn each has led to their down fall of some kind, and with this unjust power they have been reprimanded in some way. Sure the quote could be retaining to Antigone, Creon, potentially all the characters of the story, though the real audience it is preaching to is all of man-kind. Everyone has their flaws and faults, because pride is in all of us, it is human nature to take pride in all of our work. The overwhelming flaw in human nature is to be consumed by this beast of pride, to take control of the chains of power and keep our pride in check. Pride is a scary thing; Antigone kept her pride in check, though when Creon is consumed by his pride it becomes his fault. Thus it reveals to us that Creon is the tragic hero in which his hamartia is revealed, which in turn is his pride. The first of which was Rome, who was a prosperous,