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have you help me.” (Sophocles 132-133). This shows the stubbornness and arrogance Antigone feels about her actions. She too stubborn to accept help and it essentially leads to her own demise. Antigone commits suicide in her cell that Creon sentenced her to stay in. Creon s stubbornness comes out when he is talking with the prophet, Teirsesias. Teirsesias warns Creon that if he does not free Antigone, bad things will happen. Creon is too stubborn to believe that his decree will lead to the downfall that Teirsesias speaks of. In return Creon states that his old friend and prophet has “sold out” (Sophocles 65). Although Teirsesias has never been wrong, Creon is so stubborn that he refuses to listen, claiming that Teiresias has been corrupted by money and so his pride hampers

his good judgment. In a similar manner, when Haimon tells Creon that he should not condemn Antigone to death, Creon becomes outraged at his son for standing up for Antigone. Creon lashes out at him, calling him an “adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman” (Sophocles 114). Haimon is deeply hurt by this and in turn goes to Antigone s cell. When his father finds him, Haimon is so outraged at him that he tries to kill Creon, and then turns Johnson 4 the sword on himself. Stubbornness of the characters Antigone and Creon led to tragedy for each of them. Although Antigone and Creon have conflicting points of view in Sophocles play, Antigone, both are remarkably similar in their personality traits. Ironically, they are both so similar that they cannot see it. Flaws that they share make

neither of them willing to listen to the other, which is what eventually leads to the tragic ending in Antigone.