FATAL LACK OF JUDGEMENT
...Antigone, she should want the same thing Antigone wants for her brother. It’s the honorable thing to do for their “own flesh and blood.”(1) Creon isn’t higher than the Gods to have total disregard for their laws. Creon is the King and rules the city for himself as he pleases. He follows his own laws and thinks the Gods perceive things the way he does like when he told the leader to, “stop, before you make me choke with anger – the Gods…[you think] the Gods could have the slightest concern for that corpse…[or even] celebrate traitors.”(317, 320, 326) Creon will never honor the traitor over the patriot; (233) whereas, in the divine law anyone in death is to be honored the same and everyone else. Creon sees no reason for his laws to be hubris, because he is blinded the powers of a King and his self-centered attitude toward the city. He doesn’t realize his decisions are wrong until it’s to late. This is his city and he runs it and sets the rules to be followed or face the dying consequences. In the readers eyes, observing Creon’s actions and attitude, one could see that he was making the transition into a careless living corps from the start, basically bringing down everyone around him. He doesn’t care for his family and friends in the least. Creon was disrespecting the divine laws to dishonor Polynices in death for becoming a traitor. Creon with no remorse was still going to execute Antigone even after knowing she was going to become his son’s wife. He said he would kill the other sister as well for being related to Antigone just because he could. Creon was about to sentence the messenger to death for informing him about what someone did to the body, unless the messenger found the real law-breaker. Creon was a careless walking corps in the reader’s eyes, but wouldn’t make the full transition himself until the end, when he had nothing to live for. Antigone’s beliefs in divine law are more convincing than those of Creon’s in human law. In almost every Greek Mythology play, there is belief in the people of many powerful Gods, who are praised everyday. The Gods are supreme entities over all, on earth. They created everything and people should be thankful in worship of the Gods until the end of time. These Gods are the highest and most powerful, over humans, so their divine laws are superior to Creon’s human laws. The people follow the divine laws because the laws are righteous and moral with the highest honor and dignity for everyone in life and in death. These divine laws are created from the highest power, not by one solitaire human and his own beliefs and values only for himself. Both Antigone and Creon are tragic characters, but Creon is more tragic of the two. Antigone lives for the divine law, which Creon follows not part of, only his laws are to be followed. She would do anything to pay honor and respect to her brother. If she had to follow Creon’s la...