LRJ #2

In Antigone, Creon displays his flaws numerous times. He put out a punishment for burying

Antigone's brother Polynieces. This flaw ends up ruining his life in the end of the play. He goes

against everyone to stick with the punishment he created. His son, Haimon, ends up killing

himself and Creon's wife also kills herself, because Creon makes honor a crime. Antigone also a

tragic flaw in an ironic sense. She goes against the king to bury her brother, which ends in

Antigone dying . Creon had her put to death for supposedly freeing Polynieces soul. Even Haimon also has a tragic flaw. Haimon was following Antigone, and because of love and distilled

grief towards his father, Creon, he kills himself, and even though it wasn't fair, it was still a flaw that sealed his fate. Several times, the blind prophet was using birds fighting as a symbolic meaning that people were going to die. Sophocoles also uses the image of birds fighting, to compare the bad intent of Creon. Anagrorsis, also known as is displayed by Antigone when she

realizes that she is going to die and her perception of what was right in her mind for burying Polynieces. In the end of the play Creon finally realizes what he did was wrong, and also in the end you feel pity for the outcome of his cruelty. Women in the story of Antigone are characterized very poorly. Creon says to Haimon "you girl struck fool." The significance of the quote shows that women are less than men, and they feel the need to use women as insults. This story compares to The Illiad and The Odyessy.