Creon's Laws In Antigone
Antigone’s Laws
“I admit I did it. I won’t deny that.”(Line 500) Antigone’s views are a direct polar opposite of Creon. The motivations of Antigone conflict with Creon highlight his characteristics of self pride, views of laws, and rudeness towards women. Each of these characteristics brings Creon out as a tragic hero as soon as the play begins and his role is ginormous throughout the play Antigone. Antigone herself brought out Creon’s self pride as he viewed himself much greater than anyone he encountered. By Antigone going directly against Creon, he felt as if he had something to prove to everyone around him. His own self pride brought out a rudeness towards women that is unexplainable. He threw disrespectful speech towards women such
as, “No women is going to govern me.”(Line 600) Through saying such a phrase he attempts to preserve his pride and not let Antigone defeat him. If Antigone was a man then Creon would still show his self pride, yet the reader would not see his rudeness towards women. A final and crucial characteristic of Creon that Antigone brings out is his views of laws as Antigone views the laws as given by the Gods and Creon thinks that any law he makes everyone shall follow and obey him. As soon as Antigone says, “Zeus did not announce those laws to me,”(Line 509) after Creon asked, “were you aware there was a proclamation forbidding what you did,”(Lines 504-505). This is a very important portion as without knowing the understanding of laws between each of the main characters the story would be confusing and misleading. Without Antigone being in the play Creon would not have anyone to argue with and there would be no conflict. With Antigone, she brings out Creon’s self pride, view of laws, and disrespect to women. Antigone did a great job going against Creon and stood her ground and never let up bringing out the flaws of Creon’s poor judgment.
“I admit I did it. I won’t deny that.”(Line 500) Antigone’s views are a direct polar opposite of Creon. The motivations of Antigone conflict with Creon highlight his characteristics of self pride, views of laws, and rudeness towards women. Each of these characteristics brings Creon out as a tragic hero as soon as the play begins and his role is ginormous throughout the play Antigone. Antigone herself brought out Creon’s self pride as he viewed himself much greater than anyone he encountered. By Antigone going directly against Creon, he felt as if he had something to prove to everyone around him. His own self pride brought out a rudeness towards women that is unexplainable. He threw disrespectful speech towards women such
as, “No women is going to govern me.”(Line 600) Through saying such a phrase he attempts to preserve his pride and not let Antigone defeat him. If Antigone was a man then Creon would still show his self pride, yet the reader would not see his rudeness towards women. A final and crucial characteristic of Creon that Antigone brings out is his views of laws as Antigone views the laws as given by the Gods and Creon thinks that any law he makes everyone shall follow and obey him. As soon as Antigone says, “Zeus did not announce those laws to me,”(Line 509) after Creon asked, “were you aware there was a proclamation forbidding what you did,”(Lines 504-505). This is a very important portion as without knowing the understanding of laws between each of the main characters the story would be confusing and misleading. Without Antigone being in the play Creon would not have anyone to argue with and there would be no conflict. With Antigone, she brings out Creon’s self pride, view of laws, and disrespect to women. Antigone did a great job going against Creon and stood her ground and never let up bringing out the flaws of Creon’s poor judgment.