Fair or not Fair
Fair or Not Fair
As once said by Nelson Mandela “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.” Only when you meet that criteria can you be considered a good leader, however in Sophocles’ book Antigone once a crime has been committed not only is the guilty killer put on trial but whether or not Creon is a good leader is put on trial as well. Admittedly Creon does show some positive qualities as a leader however he does not fully meet the criteria. In order for a leader to be considered capable of being a good leader one must lack arrogance and cannot solely react off of emotion.
One of Creon’s flaws as a leader was immediately shown in the beginning when he informs his counselors "There is no art that teaches us to know the temper, mind or spirit of any man until he has been proved by government and lawgiving." (Antigone page 8) ironically he has no idea that he is speaking about himself by simply saying that a man is never truly understood until he has ruled individuals and become a lawmaking official. Accompanying his very arrogance in the beginning was his blindness to believing that a man would be committing a crime like that not a woman. He clearly states “His father's city and his father's gods, and glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood. Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels for Polyneices 'tis ordained that none shall give him burial or make mourn for him. But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat for dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight. So am I purposed; never by my will shall miscreants take precedence of true men, but all good patriots, alive or dead,
Shall be by me preferred and honored”. (Lines 303-314) Clearly he has let his blinding infatuation with his power stop him from being able to make a clear judgment and use his arrogance to reason and solve a
As once said by Nelson Mandela “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.” Only when you meet that criteria can you be considered a good leader, however in Sophocles’ book Antigone once a crime has been committed not only is the guilty killer put on trial but whether or not Creon is a good leader is put on trial as well. Admittedly Creon does show some positive qualities as a leader however he does not fully meet the criteria. In order for a leader to be considered capable of being a good leader one must lack arrogance and cannot solely react off of emotion.
One of Creon’s flaws as a leader was immediately shown in the beginning when he informs his counselors "There is no art that teaches us to know the temper, mind or spirit of any man until he has been proved by government and lawgiving." (Antigone page 8) ironically he has no idea that he is speaking about himself by simply saying that a man is never truly understood until he has ruled individuals and become a lawmaking official. Accompanying his very arrogance in the beginning was his blindness to believing that a man would be committing a crime like that not a woman. He clearly states “His father's city and his father's gods, and glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood. Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels for Polyneices 'tis ordained that none shall give him burial or make mourn for him. But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat for dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight. So am I purposed; never by my will shall miscreants take precedence of true men, but all good patriots, alive or dead,
Shall be by me preferred and honored”. (Lines 303-314) Clearly he has let his blinding infatuation with his power stop him from being able to make a clear judgment and use his arrogance to reason and solve a