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Hostile, narrow-minded, relentless and stubborn is Creon's attitude towards Antigone in Episode 2 of "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon admits that his opinion is pre-conceived against Princess Antigone as someone who has a lifelong track record of foolishness and emotional outbursts. He seems determined to make an example of Antigone despite her being his niece and his intended daughter-in-law. She breaks his law of non-burial to the disloyal dead, and he is determined to have his law obeyed and to punish all guilty, even someone who is related and royal.

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