Part 1 of Essay
Sophocles' Antigone presents a constant struggle between the laws of men versus the laws of the gods. Creon is so swallowed by his own pride that his viewpoint cannot be trusted. The Chorus, whose bias changes with the story, elucidates a more accurate perception of the play. Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone as a re ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... “Zeus hates with a vengeance all bravado, / the mighty boasts of men.” (lines 140 and 141) The notion that men should be reverent to the gods is the antithesis of what Creon initially embraces. “The power is yours, I suppose, to enforce it / with the laws, both for the dead and all of us, / the living.” (lines 238 to 240) Creon’s accepting the supposed power to enforce both the living and the dead reveals him as accepting a false superiority to the gods and thus angers them. ....