Antigone And Death Of A Salesman

Creon’s son Haemon does not want his wife to be to be put to death and pleads with his father. “ I see my father offending justice wrong. That she’ll die but her death will kill another.”(1287) Haemon reveals to the his father that if he continues with killing his wife to be he will flee his presence and kill himself for his love Antigone. In the end Creon realizes that his pride has lead to the destruction of his life and his kingdom. “ I know it myself- I’m shaken, torn. It’s a dreadful thing to yield…but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That’s dreadful too.” (1296) King Creon realizes to little to late and because of his pride he loses his son, wife, and daughter in law. “And the guilt is all mine- can never be fixed on another man, no escape for me.

Full of drama and tragedy, Antigone can be used to relate to current conflicts. One such conflict is that between Haemon and his father Creon. Haemon looks up to Creon with honor and pride, but as conflict arises, that relation is disassociated and new feelings grow. The first conversation between them is what initiates the downfall of their bond. While it seems that Creon is the most important person in Haemon’s life, Antigone is in fact the one that has won Haemon over.

By doing so Haemon hopes to help his father realize his mistake.- Throughout his argument Haemon uses strong sources and his father's insecurities to build his argument. These sources include the people of Thebes “But I, at any rate, can listen; and I have heard them Muttering and whispering in the dark about this girl” (Sophocles line 11-12). By using these sources Haemon emotionally manipulates his father by using his insincerities against him. He uses logical reason to support his claim and also uses personal examples “What could be closer? Must not any son value his father’s fortune as his father does his?” (Sophocles line 21-22). Haemon is showing that he has a personal stake in the matter and that he is in a way trying to protect his father and his bride. Adding on to his emotional appeals haemon uses parallelism to repeatedly grab creon’s attention and get his point across. The entire point of his argument is for creon to admit the he was in the wrong for going against divine law and punishing antigone. Haemon's statement supports his main cause for setting his bride to be, antigone, free. The details and emotional appeals are meant to impress upon creon that this is a problem worth

Antigone’s words, actions and ideas contrast with Creon’s characters to the point of these two characters having conflicting motivations. These Conflicting motivations cause the characteristics of abomination, discourteous, and egocentric to be highlighted within Creon’s character. Ultimately, these conflicting motivations develop Creon a tragic hero by his downfalls, how he’s been aggressive, and also when Haemon and Antigone killed their selves.

“Am I to rule this land at someone else’s whim or by myself?” (Lines 836-837) says Creon, angrily to his son Haemon, who is attempting to reason with him about the execution of his fiance, Antigone. This causes an uproar between the two and brings out Creon's selfish intentions. Throughout the story the conflict with the ideals and motivations between the two change the theme of the story from love and loyalty to hatred and betrayal. This not only contributes to Creon’s characteristics of a tragic hero, but also to the suicide of both, Antigone and Haemon.

Haemon insists he is trying to prevent his father from pursuing an injustice while Creon accuses his son of siding with a reckless traitorous woman over his own father, to whom he owes obedience. In fact, Creon is more devoted to his laws than he is to even his own son Haemon’s happiness, refusing to pardon Antigone for burying Polynices even though she is Haemon’s fiancée. Antigone, on the other hand, places long held traditions and loyalty to her family above obedience to the city or to its ruler. In doing so, she makes the case that there are loyalties to both the gods and one’s own family that outweigh one’s loyalty to a

Ultimately Antigone is chosen. “No, no, she will never die beside me- don’t delude yourself”(JSTOR). Haemon is against executing Antigone and he rebels against his father. His father counteracts this rebellion by planning to execute Antigone in front of Haemon. Ultimately Creon decides to have her confined to a cave where both Antigone and Haemon will meet their demise. “…Creon tears the rocks away with his own fingers, only to find Antigone hung by the cord of her robe and Haemon hanging onto her dead body. Creon begs Haemon to rise, but his son strikes at him, and then stabs himself” (Anoulih). This example of rebellion shows that even familial bonds can be broken. Haemon no longer cares for Creon and in a fit of grief attempts to attack his father instead of listen to him and obey him. When he realizes his attempts at inflicting injury are futile, he stabs himself in one final act of

Haemon said to his father “Now you’re talking like someone far too young. Don’t you see that?” (Page280 Line 835) Creon tells Haemon he will never marry Antigone as long as he’s king, Which Cause Haemon to storm off and leave the

The scene depicted here is the final scene of Antigone where Creon witnesses his son, Haemon, commit suicide by impaling himself with a sword grieving the death of his beloved Antigone. The reason I selected this particular scene is how a proud and confident king can be brought down to his knees by the inevitable natural order of fate. His decision to not listen to the prophet and failing to disregard human decency seemed to only lead him down a path of destruction.

He then states he (Creon) alone can’t be right and “other men who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful. You are not in a position to know everything” (Sophocles 218). By jogging Creon’s memory that he can’t have an overview of everything, Haemon is endeavoring to help Creon reason and to be open mind. In haemon’s next assertion he describes how, “she kept him from dogs and vultures. Is this a crime? Death- she should have all the honor that we can give her!” this tells the readers that if she would have died it would be unjust to die in shame for what was an act of glory, justice and that she should deserve a crown of gold and glory(218). At the end Haemon uses a plan to make threats against his father, after his father says Antigone must die, Haemon responded with an ultimatum answer “then she must die, but her death will cause another” (222). As Haemon dashing off in anger, Creon knows that if Antigone were to be executed, so will his son. Having no choose but Creon didn’t want Haemon to save Antigone so he carried Antigone into a living tomb (the cave) all locked up and supplied her with food just enough food to clear of its guilt of

However, there was a shift in society after Antigone’s struggle. Ismene initially was against her sister’s actions and tries to make her see why she was “mad” (11) . However, Antigone’s opposition persuaded Ismene to have a change of heart and declare “I’ll go [bury Polynices] tomorrow!” (49) within the earshot of Creon. She was willing to die because Antigone’s passion was so persuasive. Ismene symbolizes the status quo, showing their development from naysayers to the rebel’s strongest supporter. Rebellion’s infectious allure brought in Haemon as well, to a different extent. Haemon opposed his father’s inhuman decision and took his life, cementing himself as a rebel against the throne. He remained loyal to his fiancee, who he couldn’t

Haemon, much like his father, has his own tragic flaws of his loyalty and undying love for his would be wife Antigone. Who at the end of the story ends up making a tragic exit and Haemon after failing to convince his father, Creon, to release her chooses instead to hastily follow suit and meet his own tragic demise next to his lover. He makes a emotional and heartbroken choice out of pure desperation for his lost love, without considering how it would affect the people he left behind. Unlike Creon, he didn’t have to face the fact that he caused his mother to kill herself out of despair for her lost son and left his father surrounded by the dead bodies of his loved ones. Haemon had to bear the weight of Creon’s and Antigone’s impetuous decisions after he could not stop and ended up losing to his tragic flaw of love and killing himself.

Sophocles’ play, Antigone, presents conflicts such as Antigone vs. Creon and Antigone vs. Ismene. However, there is an overlooked conflict between Creon and his son, Haemon. This father-son conflict stems from the view that a son should be submissive to his father. However, Haemon does not abide his role of being submissive to his father and tries to entangle himself with his father role, which indirectly results in his death. As well through analysis of Creon’s and Haemon’s relationship gives an insight to their fates; and furthermore, sheds light on the underlying issue between democracy and dictatorship in the Greek society.

Antigone had hanged herself in the tomb and Haemon was wailing at her side. Creon heard Haemon’s voice and begged him to come out of the tomb. Haemon came out and lunged at Creon with his sword and missed. Haemon then took his own life by leaning on the blade of his sword, Haemon then embraced Antigone as he died.

In the midst of the conflict between Creon and Haemon, Creon strongly dislikes and neglected Haemon’s point of view because he believes that he had been corrupted by a woman. Haemon is accused of being held captive by Antigone and his love for her recognized “[him as] the slave of a woman,” referring to the love that Antigone possesses, overpowering Haemon (Sophocles 769). Sophocles intentionally adds a