Antigone Character Analysis Essay

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Using your phone in class get’s a teacher mad real quick, but once you get it taken away you start to fight for it back and you develope anger to why you would have it taken away. Antigone is a story about Creon which is the leader of a palace and his nephew Polyneices came and tried to take out the kingdom and Creon’s other nephew Eteocles was defending the kingdom and bothe of them was defending the kingdom and ended up stabbing each other and Creon decides to give Eteocles proper burial and Polyneices no burial to show what he did wrong and stay shameful and be eaten by the wild animal’s. My three body paragraphs are going to be about Antigone and how she tries to explain to Creon on how much Polyneices means to her and how he meant a lot to her and how he should have a proper burial and in Creon’s defense he says how Polyneices betrayed his own kingdom and shouldn’t have a burial. Another paragraph is …show more content…
“But if you don’t reveal to me who did this, you’ll just confirm how much your treasonous gains have made you suffer” (266). This shows that he doesn’t care who did it but just wants someone to blame so a judges the guard on his point of view and just blames him for burying the body unless he can find who did it. Creon also shows his quickness to judge by not even taking a moment to think of the situation after the guard explains what happened and just blames the guard for it. “How strange and sad when the one who sorts this out gets it all wrong” (266). The guard is trying to say how wrong Creon is because he is the one who found out the news and tried telling Creon but instead got in trouble for it. This quote shows that Creon did not take the time to think it out and just pointed the finger at the person who brought the news to him which in this case was the guard. Creon is a very judging person and wants the answer as fast as he can get it, but he also always wants to be right even if he was
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