Antigone The Relationship Between Creon And Haemon

To begin with, Haemon is essential to this play because he is the one who attempts to talk sense into Creon. When he is arguing with Creon he says, “‘No woman,’ they say, ‘ever deserved death less, and such a brutal death for such a glorious action. She, with her own dear brother lying in his blood- she couldn’t bear to leave him dead, unburied, food for wild dogs or wheeling vultures.’” Here, Hameon is telling Creon that there is no just reason to kill Antigone. He shows that everything Antigone did was for a valid reason and he tries to show Creon those reasons. Haemon is explaining the way Antigone saw her brother, lying there as food for animals; she saw this treatment of her brother as being very degrading and disrespectful. This is how