The Role of Fate

In the play Antigone many things were cursed by the gods, such as Oedipus’s curse by the gods. Moreover Oedipus’s two suns have a war because they both wanted to be the king. However the brothers end up getting killed by each other. After their death Creon becomes the king of Thebes. He makes a rule whoever takes Polyneices’s dead body and bury him they will get punished. After failing to persuade Ismene to go with her and bury Polyneices, Antigone goes alone and tries to bury Polyneices. However, Antigone gets caught and after has an argument with Creon. In this argument both people are strong of their opinion. Antigone answers to Creon “I dared. It was not god’s proclamation. That final justice That rules the world below makes no such laws.” (Antigone 2.57-59). This showed me that Antigone was stubborn about burying Polyneices body as the god’s rule, or rights. Also when Creon says “Go join them, then; if you must have your love, Find it in hell!”(Antigone 2.118-120).I think Creon is proud in a rude way. In addition I think that even though Thebes had its own curse, it could have been better if Antigone was less stubborn and Creon was less proud. The reason is that if Antigone was less stubborn then she would have followed, and admired the higher people well and if Creon was less proud he would have understood other people’s feelings, like the citizen’s minds. But I think that because of these things it makes the play much more interesting