Then they weep over the fate of Antigone and how she will never be the bride of Haemon. Creon then states that he has no mercy, and leads her to her doom. They then reflect upon how her brothers too, were of noble blood and how their deaths were so miserable. He tells Creon that his punishment for not giving a proper burial will be the life of his son.
Creon believes that the prophet is mocking him and disregards his warning. Such as Creon, he should wisely listen to the blind prophet because he has never been wrong before. Creon is devastated and returns to the kingdom only to learn that his wife has also killed herself because of the loss of her son. The state that wisdom is a very powerful tool and should be used wisely otherwise the gods will punish you for your actions. Pages 60, Lines Sophocles, Antigone. Themes in Antigone. A major theme evident within this tragedy is pride.
As a result, it led to both of their self-destructions, as they killed each other in a battle for power. As a result, she goes against the very strict law that Creon placed within Thebes. By the time Creon finally realized that it was the gods who held the highest power, it was too late. Creon also states that his son is like a slave to Antigone and mocks his son for not respecting his power. This causes Haemon to rush off, dejected, and later causes him to commit suicide.
It is only after Creon is humbled, that he realizes the grave mistakes he has made. By this time, however, it is too late to fix anything and he has lost everything. Works Cited. Antigone Plot Summary Oedipus was banished from Thebes, when the prophecy of patricide and incest was proven true. Pages 60, Lines Sophocles, Antigone Themes in Antigone A major theme evident within this tragedy is pride.
Works Cited "Antigone. This article was actually quite helpful. Ego can help, and it can hurt. It helps you when it drives you and those around you to be better.
However, when it causes you to ignore feedback or rest on your convictions in the face of evidence, it becomes a problem. Read Next. Decision Making Reading Time: 2 minutes. So what exactly can we learn from all of this?
Creon is reluctant to change the status quo. Surprised, Antigone insists that she acted alone, and telling Ismene to stop lying for her sake. However, Ismene declares that she cannot live alone with everyone else in her family dead, including her only surviving sibling. In spite of Antigone's pleas, Ismene says that she helped to commit the crime of burying Polyneices and that they must thus die together saying, "What life can be mine without her?
Ismene then asks Creon if he will kill his own future daughter-in-law, for Antigone is engaged to marry Creon's son Haemon. Creon coldly replies that he does want his son to marry a bad choice of a woman, anyway. Creon is afraid that they will try to run away because they might be afraid of dying. He says that, like all women, these two are not allowed to go anywhere, "not free to roam. The fact that women have disobeyed him increases his feelings of anger.
After the girls are led away, the Chorus of Theban elders sings about how once a member of a family commits a crime against the gods, the punishments continue to affect many later generations in the family. They recall how Oedipus' family has been cursed for many generations, down to these children who were "the last light of hope" for Oedipus' family.
The Chorus acknowledges that the king of the gods, Zeus , is all-powerful, and that his power lasts forever into the future, for he is immortal. These words refer to the disagreement about whether Polyneices' body should be buried. Antigone thinks that she has made the good decision by following the religious law of giving the dead a proper burial, while Creon thinks he has made the good decision by punishing what he sees as an enemy of the city by denying burial.
Surely one of these two thinks that he is right when he is really following a path of evil as the Chorus predicts, although it is uncertain who this could be. It is suggested that Creon is the man making the mistake, because it is he violates the religious law that the Chorus is giving such importance to, because of his refusal to bury Polyneices. The Chorus announces that Creon's son Haemon has arrived and wonders if he is planning to criticize his father for condemning his fiancee, Antigone to death.
Haemon responds that he fully respects his father in whatever decision he makes, because of the "goodness of [his] leadership. Because Antigone had disobeyed Creon, she has suddenly become not only his enemy, but also an enemy of the city. Creon also says that he will not look like a fool by forgiving her, because all of the Theban citizens want her to die anyway.
Creon states that he does what the citizens in Thebes wish to have done, for he is their representative. This disagrees with Antigone's earlier words that Theban citizens do not agree with Creon's decision to deny burial to Polyneices. She does not want to marry Haimon. Essentially, Polynices buries her brother a second time because she is determined to fulfill the dictates of her conscience and to maintain her allegiance to the laws of the gods.
For her loyalty to her brother and to her conscience, Antigone is eventually sentenced to be immured in a cave. Though Antigone bemoans her fate and believes death is a cruel and unnecessary punishment for burying Polyneices, she is never apologetic for actually covering his body.
She believes until the end that she did the right thing. Antigone does not want her sister laying claim to an act that was solely hers for two reasons: one, because she wants her sister to remain alive, and two, because she wants her sister to feel the shame of abandoning her principles for the sake of staying alive and being subservient to men. Creon will not listen to anyone.
He is stubborn and his pride is so great, he can not bring himself to acknowledge that he could ever wrong. What is the punishment for anyone who buries Polynieces? What news does the sentry bring to Creon? Eteocles is the brother of Antigone, Ismene and Polyneices. In the most basic sense, Antigone is the more strong-willed of the two sisters, while Ismene is compliant.
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