Creon's Arrogance Fractured
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- Slayt: 1
- Tiresias has come to speak with Creon because the gods are unhappy with what Creon has done. Creon has refused to allow Polyneices to be properly buried, and Tiresias warns him that this has angered the gods.
- The city is sick, and the gods are reluctant toward our offerings.
- I am the king, I know what I am doing.
- Tiresias is concerned and foreboding as he senses that Creon's actions will have devastating consequences.
- Creon is arrogant and dismissive as he is convinced that his authority makes his judgment unquestionable.
- Slayt: 2
- Tiresias explains that the gods are rejecting the sacrifices being offered because Polyneices remains unburied. Instead of accepting the warning, Creon becomes angry.
- You aren't listening! It is because you haven't given a proper burial to Polyneices, which has angered the gods!
- You men are fond of money and prophesy falsely against me!
- Creon is now defensive as he begins to accuse Tiresias of being bribed to falsely prophesy against him.
- Tiresias is now exasperated and resolute; Tiresias refuses to allow Creon's anger to silence his warning, explaining further.
- Slayt: 3
- Tiresias has had enough of Creon's insults. He tells Creon that he will suffer because of what he has done. Tiresias predicts that Creon will lose someone from his own family because of his actions.
- "Then know you, and know it well, that you shall not live through many more courses of the sun's swift chariot before one begotten of your own lions shall have been given by you a corpse for corpses, because you have thrust children of the sunlight to the shades and ruthlessly lodged a thriving soul in the grave..." (pg 116).
- What if he is right?
- Tiresias is now ominous and authoritative as his certainty conveys that Creon can no longer dismiss the consequences of his actions.
- Creon is now uneasy and apprehensive as his confidence begins to fracture as he realizes that Tiresias may be telling the truth.