"Ah, Money! Money is a currency that's rank. Money topples cities to the ground, seduces men away from happy homes, corrupts the honest heart to shifty ways, makes men crooked connoisseurs of vice"(Sophocles 203).
What Creon is saying here regards to the way in which money, power, fame, and things of that sort have a way of consuming the human mind. When a prize like one of those is dangled in front of a person's eyes, it can lure them away from their best intentions. It may give them a warped sense of what is important. This shows how he feels that possibly the views of the people around him have been changed by the thought of money and bribery. Creon feels as though people are making accusations towards him because they have money on the mind. The sentry in particular may have an ulterior motive in Creon's ever paranoid mind. In these thoughts and blatant disregard for advice, Creon is directly mimicking Oedipus.
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