Antigone In Antigone Creon seems to hold the idea that everything (including divine law) is subordinate to the state. Creon proclaims “Anarchy -/show me a greater crime in all the earth”(94,752-753). Creon later realizes that there may be things more important than the state but by that time everyone is dead. Creon is also full of the kind of unfair blind anger of a tyrant. This is very obvious when he decides that …showed first 75 words of 402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 402 total…mind interesting questions about how to deal with a state’s stability and morals. The way countries value stability and the lengths they are willing to go in order to obtain it. An especially important issue given our ongoing “war on terrorism”. Antigone dealt with a society in which Church and state are not separated. If Church is truly separated from the state in our society is there anything more important than the state? Probably.