Read the passage. Creon: This truth is hard to bear. Surely a godHas crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heaven. And driven me headlong a barbaric wayTo trample out the thing I held most dear. The pains that men will take to come to pain! Which theme is expressed in Creon's words?

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10 November, 10:37

Read the passage. Creon: This truth is hard to bear. Surely a godHas crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heaven. And driven me headlong a barbaric wayTo trample out the thing I held most dear. The pains that men will take to come to pain! Which theme is expressed in Creon's words?

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Bailey Bolton · Answer 1

D. Only wise people who obey the gods find happiness.

Explanation:

Sophocles' tragedy play "Antigone" tells the story of how the protagonist Antigone had betrayed or chosen to disobey the orders of the king and bury her dead brother. Both siblings Eteocles and Polyneices had fought over the throne and ended killing each other. While the former is hailed a patriot by Creon on whose hands fall the kingship, the latter was deemed a traitor and left to rot without any proper burial for him.

The given excerpt from the play is from the end of the play after Creon had learned of the death of his son Haimon. Haimon had decided to suffer the same fate as that of his fiancee Antigone. Even after his father had decided to convict Antigone of going against the king's rule, he sided with her and begged his father to forgive her. The refusal of Creon to let Antigone led him to his death, thus the result of the said lines in the given excerpt. This shows that the gods bestow happiness on the wise men who chose to follow their advice.