Antigone is a play based on the power of democracy. Creon punished all of the democratic acts as tyranny against the state. At the end of the play he realized that there is no one man state, that the people rule it. Without any people to agree with your decisions you are just a man not a republic. One of the first references to the family is the two different burials given to brothers. Antigone …showed first 75 words of 234 total…

…showed last 75 words of 234 total…what appears to be complete obedience, but at the end it is shown that he is actually mocking his father. Teresias approaches Creon as a by stander that is letting him know what is being said in his kingdom. At the end of the play he realized that there is no one man state, that the people rule it. Without any people to agree with your decisions you are just a man not a republic.