Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is a sad story that is essentially about a girl who buries her brother who was considered a traitor by King Creon, the leader of Thebes. The story delves into the dilemma of evaluating oneself against one's moral obligations to another human being. King Creon's arrogance impeded his decision whether to allow the burial of Antigone's brother Polyneices, and this led to King Creon losing everything that mattered to him: his family and his leadership. Therefore, King Creon's excessive pride is his tragic flaw, a deadly trait for any leader. As he ascended the throne, King Creon commanded, “Polyneices, who returned from exile, eager to sweep away in the devouring fire his ancestral city and his native land.” gods, eager to take possession of the blood of his family and reduce men to slavery: for him the proclamation of the state declares that he will have no burial mound, no funeral rites, no lament” (Sophocles 199-206). With this decisive proclamation he went against the way the Greeks treated the dead; King Creon denied the burial of Polyneices, a sacred rite for the Greeks. More specifically, however, he denied it...