Oedipus is angry he was cut off in the road and killed people. His pride has blinded him to his oncoming downfall and, fittingly, his punishment for that is to actually become blind. In Antigone, the moral of the story is that of fate. This moral is incorporated through the actions of both Creon and Antigone.
The moral also corresponds with a recurring theme of the abuse of power, something that Creon is more than guilty of. He suffers because of his flaw: pride. He cannot imagine that anyone else can be right. Aristotle termed Hamartia to tell about the tragic flaw which the protagonist must undergo.
Lesson Summary Creon is the tragic hero because he tries to restore order in Thebes and is a good ruler but ends up alone due to his excessive pride. Antigone is the tragic hero because she sticks to her beliefs in the Gods and family and dies because of her loyalty to them. Being a good leader means that someone is humble, thoughtful and unselfish.
Creon is a rather weak man who has been placed into a position of authority and is incapable of handling the position well. Creon was not able to lead well, because he let the huge amount of power he had go to his head. Antigone was right in defying the King Creon because she had the right to bury her brother and her brother had the right to receive a respectful burial which would honor their family.
Wayne Wong 1st I believe that Creon would be our best fit for an archetypal tragic hero. He expresses hamartia, a tragic flaw, that ultimately leads to his downfall in an emotional rampage, catharsis, the loss of his wife and son. Creon is the tragic hero because of his error in judgement, stubborn way of ruling Thebes, his change, and all the tragedy brought on by his actions.
Although Creon changed only when a messenger told him there would be a tragic ending because of all his actions, he did try to correct what he had done. Similarly in Sophocles, Antigone, King Creon can be regarded as a tragic hero despite of his staged villain role; because it is his arrogance and power that destroys him. To Begin, Creon is a tragic hero because he comes from Nobel birth and holds the high authority of King.
But when examined closer, Creon may stir sympathetic feelings in readers when considering his motives because he has a heart of a leader, he has a parental heart, and he suffers from misery and regret. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Research Paper. Ben Davis June 1, What does Oedipus blindness symbolize?
What did Oedipus say when he blinded himself? The news program ended. I got up and changed the channel. I sat back down on the sofa. Her head lay across the back of the sofa, her mouth open.
I reached to draw her robe back over her, and it was then that I glanced at the blind man. What the hell! I flipped the robe open again. Something about the church and the Middle Ages was on the TV. Not your run-of-the-mill TV fare. I wanted to watch something else. I turned to the other channels. But there was nothing on them, either. So I turned back to the first channel and apologized. Whatever you want to watch is okay. Learning never ends. There were times when the Englishman who was telling the thing would shut up, would simply let the camera move around over the cathedrals.
Or else the camera would tour the countryside, men in fields walking behind oxen. I waited as long as I could. Then I felt I had to say something. Little statues carved to look like monsters. Can I ask you something? Let me ask you a simple question, yes or no. But let me ask if you are in any way religious? A wink is the same as a nod to a blind man. In anything. So I began. First I drew a box that looked like a house. It could have been the house I lived in. Then I put a roof on it.
At either end of the roof, I drew spires. Go on now. Keep it up. So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life up to now. What do you think? But I had my eyes closed. I thought it was something I ought to do.
My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. Wright echoes Mrs. Indeed, Bigger later realizes that, in a sense, even he has been blind, unable to see whites as individuals rather than a single oppressive mass. In conclusion, blindness has always played an important role to the symbolic meanings a literary text may convey and it seems that it has always provided a wide variety of flexible adjustments, in order for a literary personality to successfully interpret hidden, subconscious or not, messages to the readership or the audience.
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