Antigone

Both Creon and Antigone stand for certain principles Creon: the priority of the polis over family and tribe Creon’s view of the polis is similar in many ways to that of Pericles in the funeral oration: "the polis is our life" (211). Creon emphasizes how the polis transcends the family or tribe. Indeed it makes friendship between people from different families possible for the first time. Creon claims that the Gods support his view (318). Antigone: …

…III. Human Limits As indicated above, both Creon and Antigone claim to have reverence for the Gods, but seem to be truly directed by their own concerns and obsessions rather than with discerning the will of the Gods The play celebrates human power, for good and ill, but warns us to recognize human limits which are best exemplified by death. The proper response to our limits is to weave human and divine law together (376-410).