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him for Antigone. He starts being disrespectful towards Haemon because of the disagreement. “You foul creature- you’re worse than any woman.” (lines 851-852) Creon tells this to Haemon after Haemon said: “ You’re not honouring that by trampling on the gods’ prerogatives.”(lines 849-850) After Creon tells Haemon that hateful thing they continue to argue for awhile until Creon threatens for Antigone to be brought there and killed in front of Haemon.” Go bring her out-that hateful creature, so she can

characters having conflicting motivations. Haemon serves as a foil for Creon’s character by highlighting Creon’s unreasonableness, anger, and disrespect. Haemon's words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character by posing his argument in support of antigone, and Creon refuses to listen to his side. Creon’s refusal to listen to his own son’s reasoned argument demonstrates how unreasonable Creon is being in contrast to his son’s reasonableness. When Haemon poses his argument in support of Antigone

immediately sentenced her to a slow death, trapped in a cave. Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiancé, pleads his father to change his mind and consider the people’s thoughts in contrast to his own. Haemon serves as a foil for Creon’s development as a tragic hero by highlighting Creon’s narrow mindedness, harsh nature, and boastful pride. Creon blatantly refuses to listen to other’s advice or criticism of his rule. His son, Haemon, argues for Antigone’s life, for she had committed an act of love

protagonist then those worlds begin to clash. The abrupt change may come to surprise how others see the protagonist, and in the end it contributes to the downfall of the protagonist. In this case the protagonist is Creon and his foil is his own son Haemon. With Creon’s and Haemon’s conflicting ideas and actions it causes a larger conflict between the two characters. The conflict causes the characteristics of anger, stubbornness, and disrespectfulness to be highlighted within Creon’s character. Arguably

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

Haemon serves as a foil for Creon’s character by highlighting Creon’s unreasonableness, anger, and disrespect. (Line 832-33) Haemon says, “ The people of Thebes all say the same- they deny she is.” Then Creon says, “ So the city now will instruct how I am to govern?” Haemon says that he should listen to the people. The people won’t say anything because they’re scared to say anything. Creon is asking if he should let the people tell him how to rule. When Haemon poses his argument in support of Antigone

has already been done, this is a logic, reasoning as to why Haemon develops Creon as a tragic hero.” My own blind heart has brought me from darkness to final darkness. Here you see the father murdering the murdered son.” (Lines 1408-1420) As a result, interpretation of this would be quoting that Creon realized that he essentially killed his own son. When Creon took Haemon’s bride, Antigone, away to be kept as a prisoner until death, Haemon didn’t want to live without her. “Now he lies there, corpse

disobedience, anger, and disrespectfulness to be highlighted within Creon’s character. In the end, these conflicting motivations develop Creon as a tragic hero by not letting Haemon marry Antigone and the character interactions advance the plot by leaving Antigone hang herself after she got caught burying Polyneices and letting Haemon kill himself after his father won’t marry Antigone. Haemon’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character by anger. We see evidence from the text when they

brings the story together, the dispute between Haemon and Creon is what sets off the climax of the play. Creon suffers from having too much power. All that power caused him to turn on everyone and only think about himself. The conflict between Antigone and Creon bring the play together but the real conflict starts with Creon and Haemon when they all started committing suicide.

Antigone, Tiresias, and more importantly, Haemon. Haemon is the son of Creon and Eurydice, engaged to be married to Antigone. Throughout the play, he serves as a spokesman for justice, defending the moral basis of Antigone’s actions while warning his father of the people’s sympathizing with Antigone. Haemon’s interactions with his father help advance the plot, reveal Creon’s flaws, and