Creon's Death In Sophocles 'Antigone'

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In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Antigone comes to feel that her impending death will allow her to escape her growing resentment for the living, allowing her to embrace aspects of it. Antigone’s continued disgust with Creon’s bad judgement and her growing antipathy for the Chorus because of its proclamation that her death is at her own hand lead her to grow more averse to the living, prompting her to recognize aspects of the Underworld that she views as superior, such as the presence of her family. In response to the Chorus’ statement that her actions caused her death, Antigone retorts, “Then let me go, since all your words are bitter, / And the very light of the sun is cold to me. / Lead me to my vigil” (227). First, Antigone asks to be allowed to go to her death to escape the bitter words of the chorus. …show more content…
Rather than following an order, Antigone is making the consciously asking to be led to her death. Similarly, two lines later, Antigone asks to be led to her vigil, where she will await her eventual, which again demonstrates that she has decided to make the choice of heading to Death. Also, Antigone starts the Scene IV lamenting the fact that the sun shines for her no longer. However, in this passage, instead of remarking on the sun’s rejection of her, Antigone herself rejects the light of the sun as it is no longer warm to her. Antigone’s change of phrasing here shows that she is choosing the path to death herself because she no longer laments or wants elements of the world she will be leaving. Antigone later comments on her impending punishment, saying, “Soon I will be with my own again / Where Persephonê welcomes the thin ghosts underground” (227). Here, Antigone clearly addresses the Underground as a home of sorts, describing it as where she belongs with her own deceased