Creon: A Bad Leader
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Creon: A Bad Leader
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. He is a self-conceited man who is also very narrow minded. Creon who only thinks of himself, not the good of the people, causes him to lose many dear family members. And he doesn 't like to be wrong or to be told that he is wrong. He is stubborn and doesn 't want to change his mind for anything or anyone, which prevents him from being able to know how to handle situations well.
Creon was not able to lead well, because he let the huge amount of power he had go to his head. His pride and selfishness clouded him from using good judgement. In the beginning of Antigone, Creon refuses to let anyone give
Polynices, Antigone’s brother, a proper burial, because he “dishonored” his country and family by fighting against Thebes. Creon believes that burying Polynices will cause him to lose his power and control, because Polynices was Creon’s enemy.
Creon clearly states that any man or woman who disobeys his laws by burying
Polynices will be punished with no exception. By enforcing the law, it shows that
Creon lacks sympathy for the beliefs of his people and his family, Antigone.
Creon is a cruel leader who does not care about the needs of his people. The first sign that proves that Creon is cruel is when he founds out that Polynices has
been buried and he tells the Sentry that if he does not discover who buried
Polynices, he will kill him, “If you don’t find the man who buried that corpse, simple death won’t be enough for you”. He basically just said that he would be more than willing to kill the innocent Sentry, over a refusal of a burial for a family member. And even when Creon learns that Antigone was the one who buried
Polynices, he still decides to execute her, even though she is his niece. Tiresias, the blind prophet
Creon: A Bad Leader
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. He is a self-conceited man who is also very narrow minded. Creon who only thinks of himself, not the good of the people, causes him to lose many dear family members. And he doesn 't like to be wrong or to be told that he is wrong. He is stubborn and doesn 't want to change his mind for anything or anyone, which prevents him from being able to know how to handle situations well.
Creon was not able to lead well, because he let the huge amount of power he had go to his head. His pride and selfishness clouded him from using good judgement. In the beginning of Antigone, Creon refuses to let anyone give
Polynices, Antigone’s brother, a proper burial, because he “dishonored” his country and family by fighting against Thebes. Creon believes that burying Polynices will cause him to lose his power and control, because Polynices was Creon’s enemy.
Creon clearly states that any man or woman who disobeys his laws by burying
Polynices will be punished with no exception. By enforcing the law, it shows that
Creon lacks sympathy for the beliefs of his people and his family, Antigone.
Creon is a cruel leader who does not care about the needs of his people. The first sign that proves that Creon is cruel is when he founds out that Polynices has
been buried and he tells the Sentry that if he does not discover who buried
Polynices, he will kill him, “If you don’t find the man who buried that corpse, simple death won’t be enough for you”. He basically just said that he would be more than willing to kill the innocent Sentry, over a refusal of a burial for a family member. And even when Creon learns that Antigone was the one who buried
Polynices, he still decides to execute her, even though she is his niece. Tiresias, the blind prophet