LUBERIA, Raymond Jeffrey Y. Prof.

Wilna Bantay
LIT 110/B1 January 11, 2020

ASSIGNMENT
1. Discuss in 3 to 5 sentences the pro-feminist ethics of Antigone.
The first feminist quality that Antigone shows to the crowd happens when she decides to
challenge Creon's power. The test speaks to a demonstration of defiance towards Creon's
laws and during Antigone's first collaboration with Creon in the play she shows an
exceptionally intense and firm tone concerning her supposition. “If you think what I’m
doing now is stupid, perhaps I’m being charged with foolishness by someone who’s a
fool” (530), this particular line focuses towards Antigone's feminist mentality by
inferring that Creon is a fool. This means Antigone has no regard for Creon's status as a
king or, to a further degree, as a man.

2. Discuss the tragic flaw of Creon in 3 to 5 sentences.

Creon’s tragic flaw is his hubris as a misogynist ruler with a low assessment towards
women and his excessive pride. This conclusively concedes that holding inequitable traits
can result in one’s collapse. The combination of ignorance and insecurity can be a
destructive cocktail of characteristics. Justifying your own self-worth by bringing down
another through prejudices has the potential to alienate yourself to those that you truly
hold dearest. Creon's thoughts and actions were the impetus for his child, Haemon, to end
it all and towards the end of Antigone he himself understands the blunder of his ways by
saying “Then take this foolish man away from here. I killed you, my son, without
intending to, and you, as well, my wife. How useless I am now.”(480), reality in the end
makes up for lost time to Creon's curved outlook and demonstrates that an absence of
thoughtfulness can send you spiraling down to a dull void of disappointment and distress.