Creon's Presentation Of Conflict In The Play Antigone

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Throughout our lives, we are presented with many struggles, whether they be small daily ones or larger ones that involve other people. When presented with these struggles we are given a choice as to how we handle them. They tend to get a little more complex when we chose to ignore how our own decisions affect those around us. In any good story, book, movie or play there is always some struggle or conflict presented among the characters either internally or externally. In the play Antigone every character it faced with some sort of conflict, perhaps one of the most heartbreaking is between Creon and his son, Haimon. Throughout the whole play we see two completelydifferent personalities arise from these two characters; if opposites attract, how come these opposites seem to conflict? If this was any ordinary family it might be easier to switch perspectives and see not only Haimon’s but Creon’s explanation for the actions, but as we all well know this family, and the circumstances, are far from the what anyone would ever even begin to consider normal. Starting out in Scene III, even though we don’t get much of a direct insight to Haimon’s initial reaction once he finds out the wanted criminal is his own fiancee, but we do get more of an inside look at this father and son relationship. When Haimon first enters, Creon doesn’t even offer a greeting, but asks more of a rhetorical question. “We shall soon see, and no need of …show more content…
We can relate it back to Fate Vs. Free Will, and how what we choose to do can always have drastic responses. Some may just be very small and even unnoticeable, but when looking at Creon and Haimon’s relationship we see how failing to think actions through, and the power struggle between the two ends up in something much more drastic and heartbreaking. Whether it was the initial intention of either character, the meaning of power, much like today, had become
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