When I started reading I had expected Creon to have the same reasonable thinking and wiseness as he had displayed in Oedipus, it didn't really hit me how much of a character change he had undergone until i got to the part when he is charging Antigone with burying the body and accuses her of just being after his throne, (1437). This just shocked me because in Oedipus he had explained why he was more benificial to control the throne as Creon instead of being a king, and now he accuses Antigone and Ismene of attempting to overthrow him, that just seems hypocritical. I think however this is a result of what he had explained to Odepius, when he was being reasonable, as a king, you must always watch out for the persons who will try and stab you in your sleep. Either this new blindness (hmmmm) is due to his new gain to power, or his fear of not being overthrown, but moreso being killed, which in the end he does achieve this because he loses all those that are dear to him and all that are left are the guards, which insure he is safe.
On another note, I enojoyed on the previews page (1436) when Creon calls Antigone "deaf to reason" because (in this story) that seems exactly how he acts.
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