Character: Creon Flashcards
1
Q
What does Creon act as at the start of the play ?
A
An innocent messenger
- yet he in confronted and accused of being a conspirator
2
Q
What is Creons defence ?
A
2nd episode he makes an appealing and relatable defence
- ‘ live in anxiety than sleep in peace’+ he is respected and liked by the city ‘why give up that’
- he does not want the pressures as a leader
3
Q
By the end of the play what glimpse of Creon do we get ?
A
A glimpse of the tyrant he will become
‘Here your power ends’
- This is a single that Creon is emerging in the final moments of the play
