Antigone jornal #6: word choice in Anouilh

life
one of the ideas that Anouilh discussed was the idea of life and what the point of it is. creon seems to think that the point of life is to attain happiness, "life is nothing more than the happiness you get out of it"(41). Creon thinks that the only way that people can attain happiness is to remain ignorant, as clearly pointed out by Antigone, "Whom do you want me to leave dying, while i turn away my eyes?"(41). she is making it seem like the Creon turns away from what is painful or "dying" in order to find happiness. the fact that Creon uses the metephor of a child in order to display happyness adds to this idea of ignorace is bliss, since children are happy mainly because they do not know the evils of the world, "life is like a child playing around your feet"(41). he also seems to want Antigone to stay a little girl forever, and doesnt want her to grow as an adult so that she may be happy(in his eyes). this makes creon see almost stupid and tyranical because he most likely wants the public to be happy and remain blissful, which would involve not letting them make any dicisions or forming any opinions. he keeps the secret of polineces from the people, whats to keep him from keeping more? Antigone remains the heroin as she "spits" at creons idea of happiness. she states that happiness is something that is attained through knowlege and passion as seen by how she wants to ask questions and not just accept everything that she is told, "if he too has to learn to say yes to eveything--why, no, then , no! i do not love Haemon!"(42). by use of ambiguous terms that could mean multiple things to multiple people, like happiness and life, Anouih charicterizes antigone as passionate and quesioning and charicterizes Creon as tyranical.