Antigone Relationship Between Creon And Haemon

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.

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

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

Haemon stated that his father had dishonored the gods by sending Antigone off to her death, but Creon responded by saying, “You, you soul of corruption, rotten through-/ woman’s accomplice!” (836-37) Creon refused to acknowledge his son’s point, therefore, not changing his mind on Antigone’s fate. In another scene, Creon showed his independence by refusing to listen to Tiresias’ prophecy. Knowing that Tiresias’ prophecies were never wrong, Creon still ignored him. Creon stated, “You and the whole breed of seers are mad for money!” (1171) He claimed that Tiresias was wrong, and he was doing the right thing. In this scene Creon showed his independence in a cruel manner by disrespecting Tiresias. Antigone and Creon both showed that they wanted to be independent. Antigone’s will to be independent ultimately caused her death, and Creon’s caused him to lose his son, niece, and wife.

“Tell me briefly—not in some lengthy speech— were you aware there was a proclamation forbidding what you did?” (503-505). The actions, context of Antigone’s words, and also the ideas she proposed, very indepthly contrasted with Creon’s character. Thus resulting in there being a verbal confrontation between the two characters. The conflict between the two caused conflicting motivations such as stubbornness, disrespect, and anger to be projected with Creon’s character. Ultimately, these conflicting motivations develop Creon as a tragic hero by portraying that he knew, the decisions he made were of error, and the character interactions advance the plot by causing conflict throughout the play. Creon had also begun to change throughout the play,

Antigone is a play written by Sophocles. The genre of the play that Sophocles wrote was based on tragedy. It is one of the first plays that use tragedy. In the play a young girl named Antigone, stands up against her uncle Creon who is the king. She stands up for her rights, so that she can give a religious burial to Polynices. She was a girl with a lot of will power. This essay talks about the relationship between Antigone and Creon. This essay would contain paragraphs where there would be comparisons between Antigone and Creon’s Relationship.

Even if he believes he is right and his son should obey him, he doesn’t show an ounce of sympathy for Haemon, who loves Antigone. Creon details his thoughts on the importance of the rule of law over other loyalties, and his belief that to allow any anarchy or, seemingly, freedom would threaten the state. Creon’s method of executing Antigone is interesting. By entombing a living person, Antigone, and denying burial to a dead person, Polynices, Creon’s laws seem to go against common sense, tradition, and nature itself. Creon does not keep a cool head, as a wise leader should, or look for a way to compromise. He is as stubborn as Antigone, as if this were a street fight, he feels he could never back down.

This play is ultimately concerned with one person defying another person and paying the price. Antigone went against the law of the land, set by the newly crowned King Creon. Antigone was passionate about doing right by her brother and burying him according to her religious beliefs even though Creon deemed him a traitor and ordered him to be left for the animals to devour. Creon was passionate about being king and making his mark from his new throne. Although they differed in their views, the passion Creon and Antigone shared for those opinions was the same, they were equally passionate about their opposing views. Creon would have found it very difficult to see that he had anything in common with Antigone however as he appears to be

The brothers were in battle because Eteocles was kicked out of his kingdom and he wanted to take back what was gonna be his, so he took some men and brought them to his old kingdom to fight his brother to the death. They ended up killing each other in battle which lead their uncle Creon to become king and Antigone wanted to bury her brother but since he was considered a traitor the king forbid it from happening. She still got to put dirt over his body and the sentry saw and told Creon about it and he was furious so they took the dirt off of the body.

A character that’s interactions has affected the story’s turn of events and helped to move along creon's character as a tragic hero would be haemon he helped develop creon as a tragic hero by standing by antigone’s side and explaining to creon just how wrong not only he but all of the state believed creon was for punishing Antigone as she buried her brother who a law was set in place by creon for him to not be buried even as her other brother was buried and given all the rights of the dead creon saw this as disobeying him greatly and punished Antigone to death as he did this haemon caught word and came to him and as he did creon's prominent character trait was shown creon has to be correct and followed at all times and if resistance is put out he becomes enraged and almost irrational this helps him be a tragic hero by leading to haemon killing himself latter in the story in which along with how he and creon argue causing creon to make sure Antigone were to be killed he helped creon become a tragic hero.

In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, there are numerous types of conflicts, which serve to enhance the plot events. The most notable and surprising of these conflicts is the conflict between father and son, focusing on the argument between Creon and his son Haemon. This fiery conflict enhances the events leading to Antigone’s burial and also reveals Creon’s true view of how he will rule Thebes. Therefore, analyzing Creon’s relationship with Haemon suggests how Creon will rule over Thebes.

Creon: ruler, idiot, oblivious. He speaks of being kind to his people and then talks about keeping their necks under his yoke. He talks of respect but degrades the ones he speaks to. Creon is a hypocritical king who doesn’t realize what he has until he loses it. What would it take for him to change?

Antigone is a play that was written in ancient Greece by the playwright Sophocles. It is the third play in a trilogy of tragedies about the city-state of Thebes, revolving around Oedipus Rex. Antigone starts the day after a civil war fought between the two sons of Oedipus Rex after his death. The civil war ended in death for both brothers, so their uncle, Creon, assumed the role of King of Thebes. The main conflict of the play begins when Creon gives one brother, Eteocles, a burial with honors, but passes a law forbidding a burial for the other brother, Polyneices with the penalty of death. One of the sisters of Eteocles and Polyneices, Antigone disagrees with this law, and decides to bury Polyneices, resulting in Creon sentencing Antigone to death. A conflict emerges between Antigone and Creon, who appear to be opposites. However, despite Antigone and Creon’s different stances on law, they are ultimately more similar than different because of their shared value of loyalty and their shared characteristic, hubris.

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.

Furthermore, Haemon is essential because of his words of wisdom to Creon. He tells Creon of his own sort of treason saying “you trample down the honors of the gods” showing how he is willing to deny the gods their laws and procedures just to show his own power and strength. He doesn’t see how his own acts are an act of defiance to the gods and without Haemon interjecting, he never would have been able to realize his follies. Haemon realizes that his father has gone mad with the power he holds and knows with the company that surround him, his evil ways will never correct themselves. He tries to use his sway as Creon’s son to alter his fathers mind. He calls Haemon and brings him down from his high of feeling like the all powerful god and treats