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Antigone breaks the law on purpose by his beliefs, later causes Creon to believe she must be killed, even though she is to be wife. Haemon tried to convince Creon not to kill Antigone, and it did not work. Creon went to see Antigone and saw her hanging because she had committed suicide, this led Haemon to try and stab his father, Creon, but when he missed he stabbed himself instead. “Drew his two-edged sword. Creon moved away, so the boy’s blow failed to strike his father. Angry at himself, the ill-fated lad right then and there leaned into his own sword, driving half the blade between his ribs.” (Sophocles, 374). Creon had become so obsessed that it led to the death of his son, and his

She makes a choice to bury Polyneices, her brother. Knowing all too well that the punishment for her actions is death. In the end Antigone does get caught and dies.This is just another example as to how corrupt Creon has become. He shows no sympathy to even his family. Ruling with an iron grip promotes no forward movement and restrains people from their true potential.

Haemon shows his love to Antigone by revolting his father 's authority and committing suicide. Haemon is the son of Creon and Eurydice and is engaged to Antigone. He always respects and obeys Creon, taking Creon for a model. However, the decree of killing Antigone causes his violent controversy with his father because he is afraid of losing his fiancé—Antigone. Haemon defends the moral behavior of Antigone and reasons with Creon to change

Sophocles’ play “Antigone” illustrates the conflict between obeying human and divine law. The play opens after Oedipus’ two sons Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other in a civil war for the throne of Thebes. Oedipus’ brother in law Creon then assumes the throne. He dictates that Eteocles shall receive a state funeral and honors, while Polyneices shall be left in the streets to rot away. Creon believes that Polyneices’ body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience and treachery against the city. Polyneices’ sister, Antigone, upon hearing this exclaims that an improper burial for Polyneices would be an insult to the Gods. She vows that Polyneices’ body will be buried, and Creon declares that anyone who

It was soon discovered what Antigone had done. Creon her to be executed and was imprisoned in a cave. Her fiancé, Haemon, son of Creon, begged his father to let her go. He finally agreed but he was too late, Antigone had hanged herself. Haemon was devastated that his love was dead, so he committed suicide. At the news, Creon's wife and Haemon’s mother, queen Eurydice, commits suicide fulfilling Creon’s fate of being responsible for his family’s death. Antigone lines 1335-1336 “From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape”.

“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

Haemon delivers a stronger argument regarding Antigone's existence due to his understanding of the country’s opinions, and his consideration of the god’s perspectives. After Antigone buried her own brother despite the Kings ruling, Haemon and Creon dispute her fate where Haemon reveals compelling reasoning to save her life. As a citizen, he has heard the populations opinions on the issue, who agreed she should not be executed, and see that as an “unreasonable” death, His report included how citizens even question if “her name be writ in gold?”(Roche 222) Haemon explaining the citizens’ views influences the story. Seeing as Creon is King his decisions are under harsh analysis, so having his first day include an unfavored decision would harm

Embedded Assessment #2 As Haemon, Creon's son walks in for the first time in the play he declares to his father “Father, I’m yours. For me your judgments and the way you act on them are good I shall follow them”.(720)He’s showing his love and respect/loyalty to his father still after all that’s been going on. Although Haemon did love his father, feelings quickly changed as he found out what his father's done to Antigone. While it could be argued that Haemans choice of words while talking to his father lead to Creon being the tragic hero, inevitably by the end of the story he would of been it anyways. Since Antigone is his Fiance of course Haeman would be offended when Creon talked about Antigone’s punishment.

So he tried to tell convince creon that his decision was irrational and that the people of the towns people were talking about Antigone and how she did the right thing. But the king didn't want to listen and followed through with his plan of killing here except in a different way. He said that he will lock her up in a cell and leave her some food to live of off a little while but eventually will die of starvation. knowing this antigone killed herself by hanging herself with the vile of her wedding dress. When Haemon found out that his wife killed herself he stabbed creon and

Antigone In the tragedy Antigone, written by Sophocles, Antigone buries her brother Polynices, disobeying Creon. Creon talks to his son Haemon, Antigone’s groom, saying that he should forget about Antigone and move on,“ Spit her out, like a mortal enemy-let the girl go. Let her find a husband down among the dead” (Sophocles line 728-730). The mood is foreboding because Haemon hints at suicide and Creon gets worried.

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

In the play, Creon and Antigone can be seen as good or bad characters. Both of them show traits of justice. Antigone wanted to save her brother, Polyneices, by giving him a soldier’s funeral with military honors. Creon realized his mistake of putting Antigone in a cave to die for burying Polyneices, and he tried to fix it. Unfortunately, he

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.

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.