Antigone was written by the great Greek playwright Sophocles about the blind corruption that indiscriminately falls upon anyone with absolute power. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" as stated by Lord Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887. This is echoed in the story of Antigone, where Creon shows that too much power can corrupt even the trustworthiest of men. As Creon became bestowed with total control of Thebes his …
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…his power to receive the things he wanted. A good example of this in recent American society would be the Enron scandal. Other people of authority such as some police officers think they can do things that other citizens can't do and get away with it cause of the power they hold. Some people take their role of power or high authority to the extreme, which can and usually will destroy themselves and their society.