Creon the Authoritarian “Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.” In Sophocles’s tragedies Oedipus the King and Antigone, Creon is an authoritarian. It can be seen that Creon is an authoritarian when he is elevated to king and how he is an order politician as king, which leads to his demise. Creon’s authoritarian persona is initially exposed when he is elevated to king, in …showed first 75 words of 549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 549 total…be so shrewd and that he has to take notice to others, but he didn’t so Creon also served his own demise because of his Authoritarian disposition just as Oedipus did. Creon’s authoritarian nature is what caused his downfall. Like Adolph Hitler, of the communist party and Willy in, Death of A Salesman, Creon tries to bully everyone around. Whether it is appropriate or erroneous he tries to tell everyone what to do