The play Antigone, written by Sophocles, was a tragedy depicting the cursed life of Oedipus" family. It is placed between two other famous works of Sophocles that were written about Oedipus" life. In this play, his two sons have killed each other in battle, and their sisters Antigone and Ismene are left to follow their Uncle Creon's rule. Antigone is a story filled with airs of superiority, greed for power, and fatal consequences. Shakespeare, on the other hand, wrote the play Julius Caesar, centuries later. It tells of the conspiracy formed in the Roman Senate against the ruling Caesar. It too, is a tragedy filled with greed for power, rashness, and fatal consequences. Many characters in both plays make errors in judgement that effect many lives other than their own. These characters, although from plays written at different times about different subject matter, all hold the same principles and make similar mistakes. Antigone's Creon made numerous judgement blunders; as did Caesar himself from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Brutus also was a main character found in Shakespeare's work whose decisions should have been better formed and thought out.
The first example of a character that made errors in judgement is Creon, the main character from Sophocles" play Antigone. Creon was a man of pride. He acquired his position as King of Thebes by turning brother against brother. Creon loved his power, and thought his laws to be supreme over the land and the Gods. "How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong." (Sentry, Scene 5, Line 127) Creon's judgements were often wrong. Antigone, Creon's niece, went against his decree of forbidding burial of Ployneices and did so anyway. (Polyneices was Antigone's brother.) Once caught and charged, Antigone did not deny her actions. Instead, she claimed that God's laws take precedence over man's laws. To protect his pride, Creon unjustly convicted her of doing something wrong, as opposed to just humane, and punished.
Mark Antony is a trusting and loyal friend of Julius Caesars. ... So Caesar may. ... When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. ... CAESAR "I could be well moved if I were as you. ... Casca: He at first appears to be loyal and obedient to Caesar but later turns to the conspirators to murder Caesar. ...
