King Creon plays an interesting role in Sophocles’s play Antigone. He is the title character’s antagonist, or adversary, but he isn’t a villain. He is like the strict parents who make their children clean the house before going out with friends.

Antigone goes against Creon’s law fully aware of the fact that she will have to sacrifice her own life. She goes ahead because she feels she is morally and ethically right. Antigone believed that divine law was more important than human law. Antigone refused to let Creon dictate what she she should do.

Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. Creon also declared that Polyneices would not receive a proper burial because he committed treason against his own city. Creon punishes Antigone to death.

Tiresias tells him that his refusal to bury Polynices and his punishment of Antigone for the burial will bring the curses of the gods down on Thebes. Hearing this, Creon curses Tiresias, calling him a false prophet who traffics in poor advice and rhetoric.

Creon advises Oedipus early in Oedipus the King as the two try to sort through the details of Laius’s deaths many years before. Oedipus accuses Creon, who is his friend and brother-in-law, of betraying their kinship by siding with Tiresias about the murder of Laius.

Creon abused his power by thinking that he can change or brake the laws of the Gods and not allowing other people to brake his laws. According to the play the major actions that Creon took to cause the downfall of Thebes are that he did not want to burry Polyneices nor did allow any body to do it.

Creon is unable to redeem his mistake because he made the one unforgivable error, to act as if one was a god. By taking matters of life and death into his hands, Creon acted as if he was a god.

Jason has abandoned his wife along with their two children. He hopes to advance his station by remarrying with Glauce, the daughter of the king and king Creon allowed it. This was the big mistake done by the king.

Creon rejects Teiresias’ advice, accusing him of having been bribed to say these things. Angered, Teiresias condemns Creon’s decision as an act of grave impiety, and predicts that he will be punished by the loss of his own child (1034-1090).

Tiresias tells him that as he refuses to bury Polynices and his punishment of Antigone for the same reason, god will curse people of Thebes. On hearing this, Creon calls him a false prophet and refuse to list to his advice. Explanation: In ”The Oedipus Plays”, Tiresias is the blind soothsayer of Thebes.

According to Teiresias, what is the “only crime”? Pride is the only crime. He can set it right by giving into the dead man.

The only Crime is pride. What it means is that the only wrong thing you can do is let pride win your thoughts and get in your way to not accept the fact that the man was wrong, but some some men prefer to have pride over them acknowledging their mistakes, and fixing them.

Give a quote to support your answer. Teiresias is a prophet who can tell someone’s fate. Teiresias’ long speech reveals that the gods are deaf to the prayers of the people in the kingdom due to Creon’s doings.