Creon's Policy In Sophocles Antigone

In Antigone by Sophocles, Haemon's sound, and strongest argument for a change in Creon’s policy is that Creon is too self righteous and has not been listening to what his community thinks is best for Thebes. Haemon proves that Creon has not been listening to the community because of stubbornness when he said, “So the report spreads in darkness. When you do well, father, I have no more honored possession than that, for what prize is greater for children than that...Don’t be so stubborn that you say you and you alone are right”(712-16). Haemon’s argument proves that Creon should consider changing his policy because the people of Thebes are talking about who they believe is right in secrecy. The people do not think that Creon's policy is just.
Haemon tells his father that when his policies are successful he is proud, but that just the same he is not proud when his father makes the wrong decision. Haemon is not proud of the fact that his father is too stubborn and self righteous to even consider changing his mind or listening to the opinion of his community. Creon’s fatal flaw in his policy is that he fails to listen to anyone else’s input, and thinks that only he is right because of his self righteousness.