After Oedipus and his sons all die and Creon becomes king of Thebes, he begins to grow wilder and even more out of control than Oedipus was. In “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus is a brash and arrogant ruler while Creon is his patient, thoughtful right hand man. But through the course of events, they share almost identical personalities and even fates. At first Oedipus and Creon seem like entirely different people. Once he realizes the folly of his ways, he punishes himself for going against the gods and destroying all that he loved, This is strikingly similar to the story of Oedipus. Creon commits acts of hubris, kills and humiliates people for no reason whatsoever. In Sophocles’ other play, “Antigone”, however, he undergoes a drastic personality change. Creon is the exact antithesis of Oedipus.
Even worse however, Oedipus goes against the gods. He accuses Creon and Tiresias of treachery. In “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus effectively portrays the idea of the classic “flawed hero”. Oedipus is brash and thoughtless, whilst Creon is wise and prudent. In Sophocles’s play “Oedipus the King”, Oedipus and Creon are two completely opposite people. But as time progresses their personalities and even their fates grow more and more similar. The Chorus asks Creon to take advice from Teiresias and give Polynices a proper burial and set Antigone free.At first glance, Oedipus and Creon are two very different people. Creon accuses Teiresias of being corrupt and Teiresias says that because of Creons irrational decisions, his son will die. The blind prophet Teiresias warns Creon that the gods side with Antigone. However, Creon does not listen to what his son says and thinks that he is too young to understand the choices he has made, and because he felt his son was acting on emotion and not in the best interest of the city Haemon after hearing this, runs off. At this time we meet Haemon the son of Creon and husband to be to Antigone, who believes that his father decisions are not right, and pleads to his father that Antigone should go freed. Ismene lies about being Antigone’s accomplice, wishing to die alongside her sister. Later, Creon brings in her sister, Ismene, for questioning. She argues with Creon about the morality of her actions. She tells Creon that she has buried her brother’s body. Antigone decides to go to the battle field and spreads dirt over the body of Polynices, performing burial rights, she deemed not rendering Polynices a proper burial disrespectful to the gods.Ĭreon finds out that Polyneices’s body has been buried and he becomes furious. Creon calls Polynices a traitor to Thebes, because he had married outside the Thebes gates. Creon had made a decree that if any one dared to bury him, he would be punished by death, and Antigone was not going to allow this to happen to her brother because she followed the laws of the gods, whereas Ismene was more afraid of the laws that man had declared. She and her sister Ismene are mourning the deaths of their brothers Eteocles and Polynices who killed each other in battle for the control of Thebes. Antigone is the name of the play and the main character.
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