What happens in Scene 2 of Antigone?

In Scene 2, Antigone is brought before Creon to answer for burying her brother against his orders. The two debate the authority of Creon’s edict vs. the laws of the gods, which require Polyneices’s burial. Creon sentences Antigone to death, despite the chorus and sentry’s disapproval.

What is a central idea in part 2 of Antigone?

What is a central idea in Part 2 of Antigone? Antigone believes that people are afraid to stand up to Creon.

Can anyone living as I live with evil all about me think death less than a friend?

And if I must die Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend? This death of mine Is of no importance; but if I had left my brother Lying in death unburied, I should have suffered. Now I do not. You smile at me.

How does Creon react to Antigone’s crime?

​He is enraged, and accuses Haemon of being influenced by his love for his fiancé, Antigone. Describe Creon’s death sentence for Antigone. ​Creon will have Antigone locked in a stone vault out in the wilderness. She will be given some provisions of food.

What is Creon like in Antigone?

Creon. Creon is powerfully built, but a weary and wrinkled man suffering the burdens of rule. A practical man, he firmly distances himself from the tragic aspirations of Oedipus and his line. As he tells Antigone, his only interest is in political and social order.

What emotional flaw does Creon accuse Antigone of?

Creon’s tragic flaw is his stubbornness and his hubris. His stubbornness is displayed in his unwillingness to change Antigone’s punishment.

What is the significance of Antigone asking Creon which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?

State the speaker and significance of the following quote, “Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?” Antigone says this because Creon is trying to play God and he can’t decide what is or is not wicked. Why does Creon accuse Ismene? A woman could not do it by herself.