The Effect of Ethics In the play Antigone by Sophocles the king Creon, after just coming into power due to death of the previous king, has some trouble getting people to follow his laws. Creon bases his laws on his personal ethics and traditions. Everyone has different ethics, because Creon uses his as a basis for his law people are very critical of them. Creon bases his laws on his own ethics and refuses to …showed first 75 words of 939 total…

…showed last 75 words of 939 total…uncorrupted, Antigone is saying that what he is doing is purely evil. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so they say, well could this concept not extend to a ruler? Whether Creon was a good ruler or not is simply a matter of perspective. People in Creon’s world didn’t agree with his laws because they had a different set of ethics. What Creon did wasn’t wrong, it was simply different.