Antigone and Creon comparison

  Sophocles has written the story of Antigone. The story is about Antigone and Creon, about loyalty and the proudness that ruin their lives.

 This paragraph will show how Antigone and Creon are loyal to. Antigone was loyal to her family. Antigone says, in (p. 57) say, ‘’But I will bury him, and if I must die.’’ This shows that Antigone will bury any of his family, even if it leads to death. Antigone is also loyal to the gods. In (scene 2), Antigone said that rules the world below make no such laws. That means the rules that people make is nothing compare to the gods rules. The differences of Antigone and Creon said, ‘‘tried to loot their temples, burn their image, yes, and whole state, and its law with it.’’ What Creon said and want his people to do, it show that he cares for his law and if a god broke his law he will destroy their things. Creon is not loyal to his family. In (scene 1), ‘’Slavery-Polyneice. I say is to have no burial.’’ This shows that Creon wont burial his family that is Polyneice.

  There are many similarities between Antigone and Creon of their pride. First similarity Antigone said, ‘Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way,’’ (page 816,line 36). This shows that Antigone is prideful, because she says that she is stronger than Creon and he can’t ever stop her. When Antigone buried her brother, she followed the god’s law and if she didn’t bury her brother, she wanted to die, because she couldn’t live with herself. This example shows that she takes pride in following the gods laws and if she fails what she wanted to do, she would rather die and that shows lots of pride. Creon said, ‘has had contempt for my law and broken it.’’(Page 840,line 270) What he said shows that he has pride on the law that he make and hate anybody that has broken it. Creon got a warning that if he didn’t let Antigone go, flesh of your own flesh will die, but he didn’t let her go. Creon has so much pride that his son and wife die. Having too much pride can kill you or the people around you.

  This story shows what can happen with lots of pride and loyalty. Creon and Antigone clearly didn’t want to listen to reason.