In Antigone, Creon has to pay for his hubris at the end of the play. Which lines from the play reflect Creon’s realization of the tragedy he has brought to Thebes? CREON:
I am the guilty cause. I did the deed,
Thy murderer. Yea, I guilty plead.
My henchmen, lead me hence, away, away,
A cipher, less than nothing; no delay!
SECOND MESSENGER:
Sorrows are thine, my lord [Creon], and more to come,
One lying at thy feet, another yet
More grievous waits thee, when thou comest home.
CREON:
I go hot-foot. Bestir ye one and all,
My henchmen! Get ye axes! Speed away
To yonder eminence! I too will go,
For all my resolution this way sways.
SECOND MESSENGER:
'Tis true that thou wert charged by the dead Queen
As author of both deaths, hers and her son's.