Disagrees With Creon In Sophocles Antigone

In Sophocles play “Antigone”, Creon the king demanded that his people obey his rules and order even if it’s wrong. He believed this because it stops chaos and keeps order, but when he puts out the law that whoever were to bury Polyneices body will be put to death and this upsets all of the citizens, including his son. A true ruler must give his people what they want unlike Creon did, Creon’s people and his son told him he was making the wrong decision. When the towns people act like the counsel listen to them. The play disagrees with Creon because while he was a feared and mighty ruler in his own eyes, his own people were scared and untrusting of his rules and decisions. In “Antigone” Creon the ruler decides to create a rule right on the spot for these two brothers that came back to the land, but one brother will not get the welcome back like the other did “I here proclaim to the city that this man shall no one honor with a grave and none shall mourn. You shall leave him without burial you shall watch him chewed up by the bird” (1197). Now there is a problem, while he made this rule up. His son’s wife Antigone wants to bury her brother’s body because in ancient Greece “They gave careful attention to proper preparation of the
In order to have a peaceful kingdom no one person can live above the law or think there above the law. “now Antigone, tell me shortly and to the point, did you know the proclamation against your actions” (1204). Creon expects people to know the law and if they break it they will face the consequences. Creon kept his kingdom in order, he was a demanding king who wanted the best for his land and his people, but once people start to break the rules the chaos will start to creep around the corner. Which in Creon’s case ended up him losing his family and his rain. If people just listen and obey the law, the kingdom will be safe and great place to