Why did Creon go to save Antigone?

Answer 1

Creon went to save Antigone because he realized the error of his ways in condemning her to death for burying her brother, Polynices. He understood the importance of family loyalty and religious duty, and he wanted to rectify his unjust decision by granting her a pardon. Additionally, Creon may have been swayed by the counsel of others, such as the prophet Teiresias, who warned him of the dire consequences of his actions.

Answer 2

Oh, dude, like, Creon totally went to save Antigone because he finally realized that family drama is more entertaining than reality TV. Plus, he probably figured it was a good way to score some brownie points with the gods after all that "I'm the king, listen to me" nonsense. So yeah, saving Antigone was like his way of saying, "My bad, let's all just chill and watch some Netflix together."

Answer 3

Theban King Creon went to save Antigone, because he finally accepted what the blind prophet Teiresias foretold. The King consulted the prophet, because he was upset about how his conversation had ended with his sole surviving child, Haemon. Teiresias explained that Thebes had a plague because of the pollution from the rotting, unburied corpses of the disloyal Theban dead. The King didn't like the answer, and began insulting Teiresias. The prophet then warned the King that there shortly was going to be mourning within the royal household if the King didn't undo the evil that he had done to his nephew Polyneices and his niece Antigone. The play had opened with King Creon refusing to allow the burial of Polyneices, a disloyal Theban in the recent armed struggle against the Argive invaders and their Theban collaborators. Antigone disobeyed the order, and carried out the proper funerary rites and rituals. The King therefore sentenced her to be walled up in a remote cave. It only was due to Teiresias' prophecy about the royal household that the King had Polyneices' body properly buried. Likewise was it only due to that same prophecy that the King ordered the wall breached and Antigone removed. But he was too late. For his son, as Antigone's first cousin and her betrothed, had gotten there first.