Antigone

Antigone

Antigone by Sophacles is a play about morals, family, pride, and the will of the gods. During the play an old, wise, blind prophet named Teiresais makes an divination to a King named Creon about pride, the problems arrogance causes and how being egotistical angers the Gods. Teiresias’ quote presents the three stages of pride and pride’s consequences that Creon endures.
“Think: all men makes mistakes,” (Scene 5, 33). From the start of the play Creon’s mistakes are quite clear. He refuses to bury the body of Polynieces, his nephew, because Creon considers him a traitor to the kingdom. In ancient Greece, the time of this play, burying of the dead was extremely important. People believe that without burial the soul can not pass on to the land of the dead and are trapped on earth. Antigone, Creon’s niece and Polynieces’ sister, decides that she must honor her brother and bury him, even though it is against Creon’s law. Creon has Antigone arrested and s...