Corruption Of Power In Antigone

Many people strive for power, but reaching a position of authority and control can take a toll on some. Power can negatively affect some people because of it being able to easily get into a person’s head and corrupt their thinking. Power and control can easily corrupt others, and that corruption can form tyrants. In the play Antigone, the character Creon has recently been crowned King of Thebes, and the authority he holds, has already gotten to him. Creon has declared that Polyneices, one of the princes that was in line before him who has recently died, “is to have no burial” (Sophocles, line 43). The people of Thebes dislike Creon’s decree, but they comply anyway due to fear because Creon believes that “whoever is chosen to govern should