Bias In Antigone

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Antigone 11. It is clear that Sophocles’ is bias in this play and he sides with Antigone when she is in conflict with Creon. Sophocles depicts a conflict between family and politics through the characters of Antigone and Creon. Sophocles placed Antigone as more just and noble and as the protagonist, showing his views and criticism of his philosophies. This play suggested that familial values and love dominate political values. Antigone had a strong sense of duty to her family that made her to disobey Creon and to respectfully bury Polyneices, her brother and willing to die for dignity and a display against the authority. The play called that civil disobedience is tolerable and that justice can not be given by an unsuitable, tyrannical man.…show more content…
In Ode 1 of the play, another strophe of the chorus proceeds after the scene between Creon and the sentry, lamenting on Creon’s growing ignorance and pride. Prior to the strophe, Creon rebuked a sentry, claiming him responsible to the crime of Polyneices’ burial. Despite the pleads from the sentry, Creon refused to give him mercy or believe him. “How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!”(1355) Creon is beginning to appear as a wrongful, unjust king and the Chorus overshadows that more conflicts will arise because of the new, proud king. The chorus warned the audience of the dreadful pride of Creon by using mostly metaphors. “Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man; the stormgray sea.”(1355) Creon is compared to the sea, often seen as big, mighty, and majestic. “The huge crests bear him high, Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven… Year after year, the timeless labor of stallions.” The chorus uses metaphors of nature as Creon prevails over his people, which is nature, (Earth and the horses.) The chorus continues with metaphors of animals such as birds, fish, lions and a bull (“The lightboned birds and beasts that cling to cover, the lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water… the lion on the hill… the sultry shoulders of the mountain bull” (1345)) and then later proceeds to metaphors of weather of “rapid air”, “snow”, “winter rain” and “wind.”(1356) The chorus sung that Creon is fated in working of both good and evil and…show more content…
Antigone is ultimately the protagonist of this play for struggling against Creon and his unjust ruling and instead doing what she believes is morally right despite it being against a law. Creon is the antagonist for being an unsuitable leader who judges, is full of pride, and ignorant. He has more evil qualities as many Thebens disagreed with him and saw Antigone as more just. It is Antigone’s tragedy in the play because of her determination to honor her dead brother and leading herself to being in a tomb alive by Creon and ends her life by suicide. Antigone’s whole life was very tragic as the audience knew she was heading to death after one unfortunate after
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