Antigone 9
In the story Antigone Creon showed that to much power will corrupt anyone. As Creon became blessed with total control his character, principals, and his judgement deteriorated. Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles. He was a man that did an excellent job of showing how absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything he once stood for had crumbled. The play Antigone begins by telling of a troubled royal family. In this play there are nine main characters. I will focus on only a few of these characters. The play starts with Antigone (niece of Creon) and her sister Ismene talking about how their father Oedipus died, and how his death brought very hard times. Their brothers Eteocles and Polynices have just died fight each other. Eteocles was fighting for the city, while Polynices was fighting against the city and was the supposed 'traitor'. When the two died Eteocles was given full burial rites, but Polynices was given absolutely no burial rites of any kind because he was a traitor. His death was forbidden to be mourned throughout the city. The death of Eteocles and Polynices spurred Creon's rite to the throne. He insisted that the body of Polynices lay
Creon's leadership wsa hurt greatly because of his immoralistic character. Creon states that there are other women for his son to love when he states "There are other fields for him to plow". (lines 642-643) Creon also believes that his son should obey his father's request no matter what the circumstances. He tells of this when he says "That's how you ought to feel within your heart, subordinate to your father's will in every way". (lines 713-714) Creon took his power a step too far by insisting that everything be done his way, and I believe that is one of the reasons that he fell apart as a leader. Creon also suffered from a lack of rock solid principals. When he said " I am in no mood to trade insults with a seer" (line 1168), he showed me that he felt that as a king he thought he was a better person than all others. He felt he had no time for ordinary people because he was of higher being. He also said "Not a word of hope-your doom is sealed" (line 1025). It bothered me that he had the absolute lack of compassion because he said this when he was about to seal the fate of his own niece. To be a good leader you must have rock solid principals to fall back on in times of stress. Creon lost grasp of these, and that contributed to his demise as a leader. Creon lost his sense of judgement when he became an all-powerful ruler. There are many examples of this throughout the play. When Creon was talking to Ismene he said "Death would do it for me-break off their
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Approximate Word count = 1000
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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