10).This is only one person's point of view on the whole situation, so there are other people who have differing opinions towards the matter. If fully analyzed, we can see that this assumption is a very good one, or that it is a better theory than other one's that can be conjured up. Sophocles was trying to make the readers think that way also, by coming to the conclusion that what Antigone did was right and what Creon did was wrong, according to the unwritten law of the Gods.Towards the end of the play, a blind prophet named Teiresias went to Creon and informed him of his wrong doings. Teiresias told Creon that his actions would result in terrible things that are going to come back to him. He said that Creon would end up paying back for his actions against Antigone and also Polyneices. Creon finally ends up attempting to reverse what he had done, sort of redeeming himself with the Gods (Segal "Antigone" 169). He understood that it would be bad and foolish to risk everything for stubborn pride. He decided to undo what he had done by quickly building a tomb for the body of Polyneices and also by freeing Antigone from the vault where she was taken to die. He went first to build the tomb for Polyneices' body and then he went to release Antigone. When he got to Antigone, it was too late. Creons son Haemon, who lunged a sword at his father and missed, and then took his own life, accompanied Antigones dead body. When Creon's wife Eurydice heard of what had happened, she too took her own life, leaving King Creon alone in life without any other living people that are close to him.A.J.A. Waldock, in his work entitled "Romantic Tragedy: The Antigone", he makes a good analysis regarding Creon, it saying:Cunning beyond fancy's dream is the fertile skill which brings him, now to evil, now to good. When he honours the laws of the land, and that justice which he hath sworn by the gods to uphold, proudly stands his city: no city hath he who, for his ra...
