The main protagonist of the play and the character whom the play is named after is Antigone, Creon's niece. ... However, Creon does not agree with Antigone on her point of view. ... This is shown when the chorus suggests that the burial of Polyneices might be the work of the Gods but Creon rubbishes the claim by saying that, What you say is intolerable, if you mean that the Gods care about this corpse. ... What man dared to do this?. ... When Antigone asks Creon, Do you want to do anything more than take me and put me to death?...

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., wrote Antigone and Oedipus the King. ... Although Antigone was written before Oedipus the King, the generations involved in Oedipus the King precede the ones in Antigone. ... This would mean that Creon is actually collaborating with others that know things, not just bringing word from gods, as he claims. ... But Oedipus had earlier ordered Creon's banishment, proving that power does truly reign in the name. ... What I see come into view next is more of a tyrant, however. ...

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It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. ... Emerson does admit the difficulty inherent in being a non-conformist, remarking, "This rule [nonconformity], equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. ... Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it"(21-22). ... Thoreau espouses this idea as well saying, "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right...

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