In the Greek tragedy, Antigone, the character Creon, who is the brother in law of the late king Oedipus, is doomed from the start. Oedipus was doomed by fate when he married his mother and killed his father, leaving a cursed legacy on every member of his own family. Creon just becomes the king of Thebes, on the dawn of the day after the repulse of the Argive army from the assault on Thebes. Creon’s nephews kill each other, one for his country and one opposing his country. Creon, being the next in line to be king, develops hubris traits and increasingly large sense pride and arrogance. Being the new king he decides that Antigone’s brother, Eteocles, who died for his country will be buried with full honors. While the other brother,

After Creon’s fight with his son, Hamion, he is very angry. He threatens to kill Antigone right then; he changes his mind and decides that it may hurt his image as king. In an almost perverse decision he decides that he will let her die on her own. “ I will carry her far away. Out there in the wilderness, and lock her living in a vault of stone. She shall have food, as the custom to absolve the state of her death. And there let her pray to the gods of hell: they are her only gods: perhaps they will show her an escape from death, or she may learn, though late, that piety shown the dead it pity in vain”(Act.1, 141-150) That quote proves that Creon, in defense of his own pride, fears that to take her life would hurt his image. He takes Antigone to the cave to die by what he believes the work of the gods. He figures if the gods want her to live then they will help her find away out and if not then will not be his fault that she died and he cannot be blamed for her death. Creon does not realize that his decisions, based on pride and arrogance, will come back to haunt him and ruin his life.

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