Antigone And Creon Conflict

“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner in an untidy spot , to quote W.H Auden-Chinua Achebe. Antigone’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character to the point of these two characters having conflicting motivations. These conflicting motivations cause the characteristics of anger, hate, and disappointment to be highlighted within Creon’s character. Ultimately, these conflicting motivations develop Creon as a tragic hero by putting his niece in a cave to die, caused other deaths. That particular mistake put a lot of people in the grave. Creon argues that the welfare
However, other people, especially antigone will find that the punishment exceeds the crime. his motives are clearly to show that he is a good, strong leader so he can get support of the chorus (elderly of the city). It can be argued, however, that his motives are completely selfish because he's trying to portray his nephew as a traitor because it’s easy for him to do so given that the blood bond between them is not as strong as it should be. Creon’s words insists subservient and master rather than father and son. this is evident in words where he states that a good son must do exactly as his father wills without questioning the latter's authority. If creon lets antigone go unpunished people will think he doesn’t have a backbone and is a hypocrite and that he goes with public opinion. However if he does go through with the punishment people will think of him more like a dictator than a good leader. Creon doesn’t realize his faults till the end where he is not able to save his loved ones. Antigone hangs herself, Creon’s wife kills herself, Haemon kills himself with a knife as well and it becomes Creon’s fault when he cares more about what the city thinks rather than his family and doing what is