Antigone play analysis

This results in the war which leads to the death of the two brothers. Creon, their uncles take over the throne. Creon was a powerfully built and weary and wrinkled man who was suffering the burden of leadership. He chose to be wiser than everybody, and neither the grievances of Thebes’s citizens nor the gods' law could change his mind once made. These lines “If he honours the law of the land/ and the oath-bound justice of the gods, /then his city shall stand high. Thus Creon chooses not to honour the laws of the land but to take himself as the greatest of all. Secondly, Creon dares to kill the guard after knowing that the body of Polynices had undergone the complete ritual of burial.

He does not heed to the fact that, the guard wasn’t aware of who did the act. When Antigone is brought in his eyes he orders her death. Antigone tries to reason with him on what was right and what was wrong but hears none. All his happiness goes away and is left with regrets. His wife too takes away her life, which leaves Creon wishing that death would take him as soon as possible. Only death could save him as gods could not listen to him. On the other side, Antigone finds absolute validity on the authority she upheld, which was the gods. She has crowned a hero as she chose to please the death since her life when the dead will be longer than her life when alive.