Those who are not buried wander eternally and find no rest. I owe it to him to unlock the house of the dead in which my father and my mother are waiting to welcome him. This shows that Antigone believes that she has a moral responsibility to the gods over her obligation to the nation and is willing to suffer the consequence in order to do what is morally right.
The dead deserve a burial with full funeral rites to ensure the peace of their soul. It is law of god to get everybody a burial or cremation to unlock their path to their journey to the underworld. Creon denied the burial of Polynices because he considered him a traitor because he fought against his native city.
He believed that burying Polynices would dishonor the loyal but what about the honor of his own family. Since Polynices is his nephew, it becomes his duty to ensure his proper burial. Creon blames Polynices for betraying his native city but he never states why Polynices has chosen to do so. Polynices might have fought his native city to ensure that the people get justice or to kill the tyrant who currently is not ruling for the welfare of the public but himself.
It is more important to simply rather obey and trust the Gods than a ruler stepping beyond his powers. Antigone makes a strong case for her religious beliefs. Creon may be a king but could not possibly know the truth behind altering death rights. There has been much debate about whether Antigone and Creon took the right decisions.
He feels that Creon has gone against human decency has violated a recognized fitness. Sophocles too, one feels, concluded that what Antigone did was right and what Creon did was wrong if the unwritten law of the Gods is taken into consideration.
Creon has honored the laws of the land but has not acknowledged the laws of the Gods. Antigone on the other hand was more right than wrong. Antigone, even though she was violating the human law made by Creon was only following what she thought was right by giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. He did what any good leader would do in that situation. He believed that all those who disobeyed the law must be punished and he stood by it. Creon believes in obedience to man-made laws.
Antigone believes in her duty to the gods and ones family. She considers these to be higher than man made laws. She believes in the supremacy of the Natural Law, and Creon himself realizes this when he he loses his family. In Oedipus the King, Creon embodies the voice of reason. As Oedipus storms, Creon maintains his calm; when Oedipus cries out to be banished, Creon protects him with gentle firmness.
By the end of the tragedy, Creon proves himself sensible and responsible, a good leader for the now kingless Thebes. Ismene, like Creon , is very much a product of her time and place.
Just as Creon acts according to the accepted standards of masculinity, Ismeme embodies the prevailing standards of femininity. She is meek, submissive, and compliant towards Creon, exactly how women in ancient Greece were expected…. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home What is the main conflict between Antigone and Creon? Ben Davis May 25, What is the main conflict between Antigone and Creon? Sometimes people have no choice but to make mistake especially problems about family.
I would choose to be Antigone's side. I think I will stand on Antigone's side. Like teacher mentiond, she and Creon are all stubborn and can do anything to complete what thry think right. For Antigone, she know that she will be killed if she bury her relatives.
But she still do it,and do it so hard. I think her spirit is good. I think the reason why Antigone is obsessed with glory is because she actually has the similiar common point with Creaon. Both of them consider that their own belief are the most rightful one, but they are standing in opposition to each other. The result that two people have conflict in concepts cause the tragedy. Creaon insists that the trailor should not be buried while Antiogone want to bury her brother because of love.
However, I will side myself with Antigone for I can't ignore that the people I love are humiliated. Her courage to against the whole city and Creaon for her brother is something i really admire.
She buried Polynecies is due to the act that not just he is her brother , but she also want to obey the rituals of burying people which have existed for a long time; that is, she is loyalty to Hades, the great god of underworld. At first, I think that Creon is a tyrant because he is so violent to put Antigone to death, but when I see his son and wife both all died in the end, I sympathize with him. If I can choose a side, I would take a option to stand by Antigone ,for I think that the dead should bury in the ground , it is to express the respect the dead.
In fact, I have no exact answers to these questions. Of course, I sympathize with Antigone because she just wants to hold a decent funeral for her brother, who is her family, and I think it shows her admirable persistence of love.
On the other hand, even though the writer of this play tends to depict Creon as an evil king, but I think he is also worth sympathy. As the king of the state, it is his duty for himself to stick to the law of the state.
However, he is so stubborn that he has been refusing to give up his principle, which makes his son and wife suicide successively. At last, although he eventually starts to regret, everything is too late. Antigone refers to the god, below-Hades, while the gods referred to by Creon are the patrons and the defenders of the state.
From my own point of view, i will choose Antigone for she respected the dead and had a compassionate heart. In contrast, Creon take his glory and nation for the to the first place, and he did humiliated the dead and his family.
We need to know that the dead had its own dinity, and it is the most ignoble thing to humuliate the dead. He should got his own respection no matter how bad he is. In my opinion, I will choose the side of Antigone, because I think she is brave and dare to insist her principle no matter what kind of consequence will be in the end. If I were Antigone, I also hope my brother can be buried, which is the last right of the dead people.
Although he is the traitor of Thebes, he also can have the right to be buried instead of exposing in the wild. I will sympathize Creaon, because I think he is the very unfortunate man in the end of the story. His wife and his son all die and cuesing him when they commit suicide. How miserable of that kind of situation.
I think it is really hard to choose what side I am on, for both sides show theier reasons for the action they made. Thoguh Antigone might be stubborn in certain ways, I still admire her persistence and braveness when encountering authority.
For Creon, I felt sorry for him at the end. At least, what he had done is just to fulfill a king's responsibility. He also paid a lot by losing those he love. There are many dramas we have heard before.
When I finished the reading , a big despair enveloped me for few minutes. In my thoughts , Antigone is brave and Creon is autocratic.
Everyone has the rights to choose which principle to follow. Whether it is correct or wrong , we will fight for what we believe. Somehow on the road of chasing we always get hurt , to others also to ourselves. It is too ruthless to treat a dead person. No matter what rule he depends on , it is too miserable to think twice. I am on Antigone's side and I am really appreciate her braveness, and I think Creon is really an unresonable king.
I really can not understand why he insist on forbiding Antigone to bury her brother. I think he should learn to stand in others' shoes instead of being so stubborn. He can not blame anyone bot himself for his fate because it is he who cause the tragedy. Laws are the representative of the king the early time and should not be broken easily. If no one obeys the basic rule of a nation, then that nation may not exist for a long time because people may not listen to king while the law is not convinced by the people.
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