Character Analysis Of Antigone

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.

Her determination to honor the deceased led to her eternal rest. The play Antigone by Sophocles is a tragedy about a young woman named Antigone whose brother died in combat and was not permitted to be buried by the king. This leads Antigone to bury her brother and face the wrath of the king’s punishment. After Antigone’s death, fate changes for Creon, the king, when he loses all of his family members for going against the laws of the gods. As the eponymous character of the play Antigone, Antigone breaks Creon’s law by burying her brother and is sentenced to death, even if it were her uncle’s decree. Nevertheless, the character Creon suffers a fate far worse than death for upholding a law he had set up. The role of family ties in Antigone is

Family and authority are common themes and misconceptions in the play Antigone. When comparing the essential themes of family and authority, Creon and Ismene characterize the theme of authority, while Antigone and Haemon value family.In the play Antigone, The protagonist Antigone defends her rights to have a proper burial ceremony for her brother Polyneices who was killed in war. Creon uses his authoritative power and puts a curse on whoever buries Polyneices, will perish. Antigone proves that authority from Creon cannot stop the reckless love and concern for her family.

and set of values. She dies with pride and no regret for she died because she acted doing what

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

Creon's weakness of quickness to anger, and misjudgement causes him to not only lose respect of his city, but his son too. In the play, Haemon stands up for his city, and the girl he loves. This causes Creon to snap and become very angry, not to fully hear Haemon's thoughts. In the story Haemon says: “The city is upset about the girl. They say of all the women here she least deserves the worst of deaths for her most glorious act.” (Lines 786-788) This shows he is subtly standing up for the city, and also Antigone. He also says, “Surely she deserves some golden honour?” (Line 792) This also gives a good example to how Haemon is attempting to reel his father in on his thought process on this situation, and ease him into a different choice for the city of Thebes, and both men's sake. Although Haemon laid his ideas and thoughts on his father in a respectful and peaceful way, out of everyone he should know his father best. Creon is a quick tempered man, and in most of the conversation between the two, he replied with rude and vulgar comments, such as: “You're and womans slave- don't try to win me over.” (Line 855-854) or “You’ll regret parading what you think like this-you-a person with an empty brain.” (Lines 862-863) From just these two excerpts from the story, you can tell Creon is a very hot headed person. Haemon, who before this incident, was close with his father knew this. He

Antigone was a Greek tragedy that ended in Antigone’s death along with her brother’s. In the beginning of the of the tragedy we learn of her brother’s death “Creon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldier’s funeral, and it was right that he should; but Polyneices, they fought as bravely and died as miserably, they say that Creon has sworn No one shall bury him,” (LN 15-20). King Creon’s decision for not giving Polyneices a proper burial is because he was a traitor. However, that was Antigone’s brother and she felt besides Polyneices actions, he still deserved a burial. Antigone has lost her parents and just has her sister Ismene left so, despite the order handed down by Creon, Antigone feels that it’s still appropriate to give her brother a proper burial.

Haemon disregarded the declarations and that was seen as the height of disrespect against Creon, but in the eyes of the civilians Creon is entirely in the wrong. The greatest iniquity committed by Haemon is the fact that he did not believe Antigone was guilty or deserved to be put in a tomb to die. Engulfed in all his power, Creon did not realize he was the only one that felt it was right to punish Antigone for performing a proper burial. Although it is not popularity but respect that he is searching for by sentencing Antigone to death, he is still putting himself before his country’s well being. Haemon is indirectly saying that a government should be based on democracy, public opinion, and have laws established for the betterment of the

Creon takes the pride from his sons. Creon will never give up on his country and will keep every word he said. To be a good noble king like creon then you will say things that you mean and will take to heart and try your hardest to keep your word, and never go back on it. When you say things that you mean and show your country that then they will trust you more and give you more respect.

Conflicts that institute in a royal family directly result in a catastrophic incident leading to outcasted characters alone. In the Greek play, Antigone, exhibits a tragic story about a family where a king named Creon believes he’s required to kill his niece, Antigone, for her valiant action. Antigone wanted to honor her brother Polynices so she disobeyed her uncles order, Creon, and buried Polynices. Creon endeavored to make Antigone lie and not tell anyone about the burial for the sake of his son, because Haemon, Creon’s son, is profoundly in love with Antigone. Antigone was reluctant to retain her mouth close and was willing to die than abide by the rule of the government. Antigone contributes to Creon’s development as a tragic hero by having opposing views, developing the theme of regret.

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.

Haemon doesn’t take a man who admits his wrongs for granted. Instead, he honors and respects him. Creon is not this man and we see it through his actions. Accordingly, Creon does not wish to learn while that is another attribute that Haemon says is a trait in a good man. Haemon values a good man who is willing to learn.

Creon meant to clarify to his son that anyone who commits a crime should be punished - even if the criminal is a member of one's family. Creon's doctrine says that once the state decides something, the law applies to everybody. Therefore, he sees no alternative other than to leave the body unburied for the state. Creon would do anything for the sake of the community whereas Antigone is devoted to her family. The situations mentioned above create tensions in the play because Antigone and Creon are bi-polar in their beliefs.

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.

Creon views the father-son relationship as one of submission. This view is evident when Creon says to Haemon, “stand behind fatherly advice on all counts/Keep [the son] at home, and have him listen to what he’s told” (Antigone 640/42). This view makes it blatant that Creon believes that a son should stand behind his father and not interfere with the father’s actions. Similarly, the son should obey the father under any circumstances. Obedience under any circumstance connotes a sense of submissiveness on the part of the son because the son has to obey his father's actions whether the actions are ethical or unethical. Creon expects Haemon’s submission, on all circumstances, especially when he subjects Haemon’s bride-to-be, Antigone, to her death. However, Haemon believes that her death sentence is unethical and harsh. Therefore, he attempts to sway