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Creon's Pride In Sophocles Antigone
What would you do if one of your family members die but do not get that they need? Antigone’s brother polynecius died and he didn’t get the proper burial his body needed so Antigone was really mad and upset. While Creon causes suicides, and ignores Antigone. Creons pride is the right one to blame because he is against all gods, he ignores Antigone, and he also caused many suicides in the city. To begin Creon is against all gods. First of all Creon believes he is the only king great king and he thinks that the gods favor dead corpses, and why they should serve the dead. “They tried to loot their temples, burn their images, Yes, and the whole state, and its laws with it! It is your senile opinion that the gods love to honor bad men? A pious …show more content…
So haimon leaves and says to the king, “Not here, no; she will not die here, king, and you will never see my face again. Go on raving as long as you’ve a friend to endure you.” (Ode 2 scene 3, lines141-143). After that, haimon is gone and Antigone is escorted into the wilderness where she will be locked in a vault of stone. Although he does not want to leave Antigone to die. The only thing that she has with her is the food that they provide for her. That is what leads to her death. The only god she has is the gods of hell, and they could show her an escape to death. While Oedipus and Creon share traits of effective rulers in a crisis, confidence, decisiveness and a desire to save their city, ironically they bring tragic consequences upon Thebes due to their own actions and fall, ignorance, causes suicides and no belief in gods. Well first of all, we should blame Creons pride, his actions and fall. Secondly, Creon does not believe in any gods, or believe his son and Antigone. Haimon leaves Antigone and Creon. Antigone gets brought to a vault of stone for her punishment and death. If this was to happen to one of my family members I would furious. My family comes before me in any situation. I think of my family before me when it comes to something like being killed or if I get stuck in a bad situation. Family comes

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