Creon's Character In Sophocles Antigone

Despite Creon’s change of heart, he was too late in saving his family. A messenger brings the news of how Haemon and Antigone died, when Eurydice, Haemon’s mother, overheard them. She kills herself with grief from hearing the sad news. When Creon hears the news of all of the deaths of his family, he says “I have just held my child in my arms, poor thing, and here is another corpse before me”’ (Exodus.1305-1306). Creon then tells the Chorus to take him away and to kill him because he doesn’t deserve to live. But, the Chorus tells him that he has to live with the guilt of his family’s deaths, so Creon goes back into the palace. Because of Creon’s stubborness, he lost all of his family and has to live with