Antigone Paper

Yang Thao
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
11/23/08
Antigone Paper
King Creon is guilty of many deaths within the house of Athens. His stubbornness as king, his unjust laws and his lack of understanding that no one has been blinded by money caused many lives to be lost today. His sin is worst then the one who have went against the laws and buried her brother as the laws of tradition have told her to.
Ever since king Creon’s reign, he has tried to be proficient with his stubbornness to try to avoid any more traitors. His stubbornness caused Creon to only depend on himself. He ignores Haemon’s words of wisdom that could have stopped this tragedy, but Creon only says “Men of my age are we indeed to be schooled, then, by men of his?”(Sophocles). That was not very wise of him as king, but something worst was ignoring Teiresias’ prophecy of the house of Athens grieving for the lost of many.
“ere one begotten of thine own loins shall have been given by thee, a corpse for corpses; because thou hast thrust children of the sunlight to the shades, and ruthlessly lodged a living soul in the grave” (Sophocles).
Creon’s unjust laws caused Antigone to revolt and bury her brother out of her kindness. Creon on the other hand didn’t see it that way; he saw it as a sign of betrayal and bribery that causes human to be corrupted. From here on out he started to think any bad news was due to bribery. “Well, the prophet-tribe was ever fond of money” (Sophocles).
Therefore Creon is guilty of causing the domino effect, by killing Atigone, Haemon suicides and then his wife suicides, leaving Creon to weep at his own downfall.
Creon could have prevented this tragedy.

Sophocles. “Antigone.” The Internet Classics Archive. Trans, R.C.Jebb. 04 oct 2000. classics. Mit.edu.23 Nov. 2008.
Sophocles.”Antigone.”