How Does Haemon Contribute To Creon's Downfall

After Antigone is brought forth and accepts the punishment of her burying her brother, Creon sends her away. At this time, Ismene steps up to defend Antigone and tries to get creon to realize that Antigone is his son’s future bride. Creon answers by saying, “There are other field just as fertile” (26). In this quote, he displays that he cares for neither Antigone, nor his son, Haemon. . He explains that there are other women around that could be just as a promising wife as Antigone. He exemplifies the theme of pride here, by putting that everyone gets replaced and that he does not put his son’s life first. Power, a theme that is primarily exemplified by Creon, appears multiple times throughout his dialogue. While discussing Antigone’s punishment with Haemon, Creon says, “This city will tell me how I ought to rule it?” (40). In this quote, Creon represents the theme of power. He is trying to show Haemon that HE is the king of Thebes and that no one will tell him how to rule, especially the citizens. In relation to present time, there are countless politicians that share the same characteristics as Creon, someone who takes their power for granted and will use it to take advantage of everyone.

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.

In Sophocles' Antigone, Haemon delivers a well thought out speech and uses countless rhetorical devices, such as humility and empowering the audience, in order to pressure his father, Creon, into not killing Antigone. After Creon speaks to Haemon about how Antigone has betrayed Thebes, Haemon appeals to Creon’s religion by stating that "only the gods endow a man with reason," and that Creon doesn't have wisdom and should not kill Antigone. Haemon continues to discuss Creon's morality by explaining how Creon should not "watch... or find [things] to criticize" in others, similar to how Haemon think Creon should not judge Antigone for burying her brother and father. By telling Creon how "the man on the street… deserves a glowing crown of gold"

In Sophocles’ play, Haemon the son of Creon greatly impacted his father’s ability to think before making an action. Creon was an all powerful king who made decisions based on his own beliefs and would not consider the opinion of others. Haemon had a different perspective on how a king should rule his people. This caused tension between the two, which was not a surprise seeing as Creon’s decisions have only caused pain and suffering. For instance, Antigone who is the wife of Haemon, had two brothers who died fighting to the death.

In this tragic Greek play Antigone written by Sopheles, a King by the name of Creon declared that one out of two brothers were to be given a proper burial, but their sister Antigone wanted them both buried, and so she buried the brother that wasn’t supposed to be —illegally. This caused a lot of issues between Creon and his people (which include his family). But after many events that occurred in this play, King Creon develops into a tragic hero. Haemon, his own son, was a FOIL (a person who had opposing beliefs) to Creon. I presuppose Haemon could partly be the reason for Creon’s transformation into a tragic hero.

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

In the play Antigone by Sophocles Haemon acts as a foil character to Creon. In the play Antigone tries to bury her brother even though she knows that it was against the rules. In the play it shows that Antigone would do anything for her brother. After a while Creon found out that Antigone had buried her brother’s body and so Creon wanted to punish her since it was against the rules. Creon's punishment for Antigone was by locking her in a cage in which then she committed suicide and killed herself. Creon is a king but also a relative of Antigone. Creon is a very powerful man but also has very strict rules and he believes everyone should follow them. Haemon acts as a foil character to Creon by trying to make him a good person where everyone can

Bring her out, that hateful- she’ll die now, here, in front of his eyes, beside her groom!” (Sophocles 851-854). When even his own son disagrees with the choices Creon has made, he jumps to the conclusion that Haemon is out to get him, or at the very least “insulting” his insecurity of holding the title of

He establishes a eye-opening tone for the readers of Antigone. According to Antigone creon's state of mind towards the end of the story is guilt for the deaths and feels a heavy burden. Creon feels guilty and responsible for Haemon's death as he states, "I was the fool, not you; and you died for me" (I.v.92). This shows that creon feels for the of him, he has lost his son.

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.

Haemon asks Creon to let Antigone go, because he said he heard that “the city

In the play Antigone, Creon starts off as the loyal king of Thebes. He is loyal to the gods and loyal to the welfare of Thebes. However, over the course of the play, Creon degenerates into a tyrant. His degeneration is showing his character development. Creon’s pride about the human law also develops throughout the play, creating conflict with the divine law. When Antigone rebels against his law, he becomes stubborn, and makes myopic decisions and grows into his hamartia. Besides his hamartia, Creon’s position as the king makes him a power hungry man. His power madness degenerates him into becoming a ruthless and vindictive man, even to his family. However, over the course of the play, Creon begins to see that because of the laws of men, he was being blinded of what’s

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.

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

Then, Antigone’s “supposed-to-be” husband, Haemon, also displayed catharsis in Antigone. Haemon, son of King Creon, was introduced into the play like no other character. He was neither proud or fearful. Instead, he expressed true care and concern toward his father. However, when Creon threatened to kill Antigone, Haemon said, “Then she must die. But her death will cause another,” (Sophocles 719). Haemon retaliated to a stressful situation by putting his own life at risk as well. He hoped that his father would then be pressured to not kill Antigone so his own son wouldn’t die as well. He also tried to relieve his father from the situation by making the decision of what to do with his prisoner for him. However, Creon disregarded this and planned to kill Antigone anyways. Although, as stated previously, Antigone hastened her fate and Haemon blamed Creon for her doing. Haemon then fulfills his word when with his own knife, “Against himself, he drove it half its length into his own side, and fell. And as he did he gathered Antigone close in his arms,”(Sophocles 735). Haemon tried to reach peace between his two loves. Although he realized his father was not full of love, his dead fiance was. Haemon then must have decided to “live” with his true love and not with his spiteful father. Overall, Haemon was trapped in a very conflicting situation and its outcomes, and his only way out of its hecticness in order to achieve catharsis was through his own tragic death.