Pride

               

In the following excerpt from Antigone, by the classical Greek playwright Sophocles, the wise Teiresias observes:

Think: all men make mistakes

But a good man yields when he

Knows his course is wrong,

And repairs the evil: The only

Crime is pride.

 

I agree with the excerpt “crime is pride”.  Although the exert looks clever and wise  it is just mostly saying that everyone makes mistakes, but good people change what they are doing if they know it will end badly. If people fix what is “evil” and bad in this world then the mistakes that you can’t help making won’t be bad because they are impossible to stop. When he says “The only crime is pride” I think he is saying it’s bad to do things for fame, just do them for the good of the world. “Repairing the evil” should be done because it’s the right thing, and huge pride shouldn’t come of it because it is just something everyone should do.

I think this excerpt is slightly valuable because it does have some good points. The part that I don’t think is all that valuable is when he says crime is a pride because without pride you won’t feel proud of the things you do. Being proud of the things you do make you want to continue to do them, of course having too much pride is bad because you get cocky, but a little is always good. (242)