Creon And Haemon Character Analysis
Using the evidence from the play, it is clear that the characters in the story have realized what they have done wrong and they have broken the cycle of family violence. Throughout the play, the family members spit insults at each other and abuse each other emotionally. The first to do this is Antigone when she tells her sister “you will make me hate you, and the hatred of the dead by all rights, will haunt you night and day”(108-110). Ismene wants her sister to be safe and not make rash decisions but when she tries to help Antigone treats her like an enemy. Ismene loves her no matter what so she does not spit insults back at her. She is the only character who doesn’t act violently in the play and that is why she stays alive by the end of the
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All of the royal family in the story are quick to judge and think they are right all the time. Antigone, Creon, and Haemon are all examples of this. They are not open to council and their stubborn single minded approach makes them blind to their horrible ways. Haemon and Creon are blinded by their stubbornness to be right. After Creon disagrees with Haemon, he says “you will never see me, never set eyes on my face again”(856-857). This is so rash and demonstrates that the family violence is just continuing. Tiresias tries to warn Creon of the errors of his ways but Creon ignores these words of wisdom. There is no learning here until Tiresias says “and so the avengers, the dark destroyers late but true to the mark, now lie in wait for you, the Furies sent by the gods and the god of death to strike you down with the pains that you perfected”(1194-1197) and Creon finally does what's right. The problem is he does it to save himself and not his family. Creon is left at the end of the story with a dead wife and son. He reflects to his leaders while he mourns “Oh I’ve learned through blood and tears”(1402-1403) and “and the guilt is all mine”(1441). Only in this time of major grief and sadness, Creon sees his own hand in the cycle of family violence that plagued his family and that it needs to
All of the royal family in the story are quick to judge and think they are right all the time. Antigone, Creon, and Haemon are all examples of this. They are not open to council and their stubborn single minded approach makes them blind to their horrible ways. Haemon and Creon are blinded by their stubbornness to be right. After Creon disagrees with Haemon, he says “you will never see me, never set eyes on my face again”(856-857). This is so rash and demonstrates that the family violence is just continuing. Tiresias tries to warn Creon of the errors of his ways but Creon ignores these words of wisdom. There is no learning here until Tiresias says “and so the avengers, the dark destroyers late but true to the mark, now lie in wait for you, the Furies sent by the gods and the god of death to strike you down with the pains that you perfected”(1194-1197) and Creon finally does what's right. The problem is he does it to save himself and not his family. Creon is left at the end of the story with a dead wife and son. He reflects to his leaders while he mourns “Oh I’ve learned through blood and tears”(1402-1403) and “and the guilt is all mine”(1441). Only in this time of major grief and sadness, Creon sees his own hand in the cycle of family violence that plagued his family and that it needs to