Frank Jevons in "In Sophocles' Tragedy, Humans Create Their Own Destiny" comments on Sophocles' irony: In this regard, we can consider "Sophocles' irony" . In argumentation, irony has many forms. That which best illustrates Sophocles' irony is the method by which the ironic man, asking seemingly innocent questions or suggestions, leads a person from one absurd statement to another, until, perhaps , the subject of irony realizes. his situation and discovers that when he thought he was the most brilliant or the most impressive, then he was actually the most absurd. . . .(62).Let us explore the irony of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone and see if we do not conclude that, as it applies to King Creon, it results in much the same result as in the situation described by Jevons. In Sophocles: The Theban Plays EF Watling comments on Sophocles' use of dramatic irony in his dramas: “. . . that powerful and subtle weapon of 'dramatic irony' which Sophocles used with particular skill, whereby the audience can judge every speech and action in the play in the light of their prior knowledge of the situation” (12). MH Abrams defines dramatic irony as a situation in which: “the audience or reader shares with the author knowledge of present or future circumstances of which a character is unaware; in this situation, the character unknowingly acts in a way that we recognize as entirely inappropriate to the real circumstances, or instead expects what we know fate has in store for him, or says something that anticipates the real result, but not at all in the way the character intends it” (137). This type of irony is commented on by Thomas Woodard in the Introduction to Sophocles: A Collection of Crit...... middle of paper ......dings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997. Segal, Charles Paul. “Sophocles’ Praise of Man and Antigone’s Conflicts.” In Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Sophocles. Antigone. Translated by RC Jebb. The Classic Internet Archive. no pag.http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html “Sophocles” in Literature of the Western World, edited by Brian Wilkie and James Hurt. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984. Woodard, Thomas. Introduction. In Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Watling, E.F. Introduction. In Sophocles: The Theban Plays, translated by EF Watling. New York: books about penguins, 1974.