1. It is said has written over a hundred plays, but we only have seven today. He won the festival 18
times.
2. He committed treason, so Creon decided that he should have the same fate as traitors that were
not from there. It’s supposed to be the highest form of disgrace. It is also possibly because
Creon is a prideful man, and he broke his order.
3. He doesn’t want her to bury him because she is a woman, and it’s against the law. However,
because she is a woman the consequences will be much worse.
4. Antigone’s view in death can be found in lines 30-31, “Creon has laid him in the earth 30 and he
goes with glory down among the dead.” She doesn’t fear death as long as she’s buried properly.
Throughout the play Kreon hold the God’s rules above all other beliefs. However, he puts
multiple people to death while mocking death itself. It’s not until the queen’s death that he says
he would like to die himself. However after he makes a mistake at the very end of the play his
attitude changes. He kneels in prayer as he says, “Come, let it come!—that best of fates for me
that brings the final day, best fate of all. Oh quickly, now—
so I never have to see another sunrise.”(1450). So, by the end of the play, he also welcomes
death.
5. In this conversation, Haemon pleads for his father to spare Antigone, but he refuses and
threatens to kill her in front of him. This shows how arrogant Creon is as well as how he will not
bend his own rules for anyone.