Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX

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Zniekształcone odbicie, czyli Antygona i Kreon
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2009) Bibik, Barbara
In Sophocles’ play Antigone and Creon are confronted with each other on every level of the tragedy, so we can observe their opposite attitudes and behaviours towards death, love, gods, certain values, towards state, its laws and customs. Creon, though he wanted to be perceived as a reasonable ruler, when faced with the powers he cannot control, surrenders and loses everything, because despising all the bonds based on ı í , he drives his family to destruction and he himself experiences the reversal of death and life becoming a living dead, as he calls himself. He is also forced to acknowledge the world Antigone belonged to and the values of that world. Antigone however, who through the whole play remained faithful to her values, only in the end is recognized as a person who had the real wisdom, which was refused to her, and seems to be a mirror in which the negative stance of Creon is reflected.