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Creon's Role Of King And His Responsibilities
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The role of the king in the time of Greek tragedies was simultaneously
desired and dreaded because of the king's responsibility to the people and
because of the effects of the position on the king's character. Creon reveals
such ambivalent thoughts towards the kingship in his speech defending himself
from Oedipus's conspiracy accusation in Oedip ....
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....president, regardless of the
actual impact that his decisions may have made in these conditions. Creon
maintains that he has the same amount of power as the king but without the
accountability that inevitably leads a king to distress.
Creon's reasoning concerning the equality between his power and
Oedipus's leads him to state:
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