Topic > Family problems - 626

In Sophocles' play Antigone we meet many characters, but especially Antigone and Creon. Antigone is the niece of Creon and sister of Polyneices. Creon is the father of Haemon and king of Thebes. At the end of the play we see that Antigone is right and Creon is wrong. It is true that both Antigone and Creon are guilty, but Creon should be held more responsible for the tragedy. Throughout the play we see Antigone's devotion to tradition and family. In the conversation with his sister Ismene he says: “You can do what you want, / For evidently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you” (Prologue. 60-61). He is not afraid of the consequences of his actions, even if his uncle's law forbids it. As we read the play, we learn what kind of character he is. She is a kind-hearted, stubborn and stubborn woman; “Like father, like daughter: both stubborn, deaf to reason! / He never learned to yield” (2. 75-76), and when Creon says: “The unyielding heart is the first to break, the hardest iron / Breaks first, and the wildest horses bend their necks / To push of the little one...