What does Creon do in 'Antigone'?

Answer 1

Make his own rules, scold two nieces and a son, sentence a niece to death, threaten a blind prophet and try to undo his previous actions are what Creon does in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon decides to turn divinely ordained rights of Thebans to below-ground burials and funeral rites into royally decreed privileges. He bullies his nieces, the Princesses Antigone and Ismene, and his sole remaining child, Prince Haemon, when Antigone dares to bury Polyneices, her brother and Creon's nephew. When Teiresias the blind prophet dares to criticize non-burials and death sentences, he too is insulted and threatened. It is only when the chorus leader advises doing what Teiresias says to do that Creon tries to undo all his mistakes.