Haemon And Creon Analysis
Haemon and Creon is similar in certain ways. Haemon serves as a foil like character. Creon is his anger, disrespect and unreasonableness Haemon’s words, actions, and ideas contrast with Creon’s character to the point of these two characters having conflicts. These conflicting motivations cause the characteristics of anger, disrespect, and stubbornness to be highlighted within Creon’s character. Creon is developed as a tragic hero because he is a good leader, he has a couple flaws that makes him into a tragic hero. Creon's tragic flaw is hubris and that's what causes his downfall. Creon will never listen to nobody because he believes that he can never be wrong, he always got to be right. Hubris is a great or a foolish amount of pride or confidence.
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He is also stubborn and his pride is so great he cannot bring himself to acknowledge that he could ever wrong. Creon showed his stubbornness by not wanting to be proved wrong because of pride.
Creon didn’t want to listen to when the people said that Antigone was doing the right thing. The actions that Creon took to cause the downfall of Thebes are that he didn’t want to bury Polyneices. Creon broke the burial law and punished them because they was following the rules, he wants everyone to apply by his rules. Creon advanced the plot and developed the theme, by the way he carry himself. His stubbornness and disrespect makes the theme more interesting. It shows that stubbornness is just as foolish as tyranny. He also has the flaw of judging people, he is very judgmental. Haemon and Creon both felt deep and passionate that their reasons are reasonable. Because that blocks them together as seeing things and from their beliefs. He wants his son to understand that the things are not personal. Creon wants his son and his people to believe in his rulership. Creon’s character is developed as a tragic hero when Haemon led him to take his own life rather than him siding with his father's. He attacks his father to kill himself when he sees that Antigone is dead. Eurydice, Haemon’s mother blames herself for her son to suicide. She killed herself afterwards then she blames it on Creon and curses his name. Haemon and Creon advance the plot by their changes afterwards. The son and father relationship went the total opposite
way.
Haemon says “Even though i’m young, a good idea might come from me (730). It would be the best so far that man will bear full of all the knowledge there is. From that point on their relationship became intense and pointed. The use of stubbornness reflected how their disagreement was. The after that Creon infers that Haemon shouldn’t be loyal to no woman. Haemon was a tragic hero as well because he had the honor to stand up to his father and going against his father wrongdoing rather than him sticking by his side.
Haemon wants to save Antigone because he loves her, and he and others of the city believe that her crime should be forgiven. Haemon believes that while the king should be obeyed, he should also listen to the wisdom of others and know when to compromise. Haemon was a character foil to Creon because he was calm compared to how Creon overreacted He was a catalyst due to when he killed himself after Antigone committed suicide When Haemon committed suicide, his mother, Eurydice, stabbed herself to death because both of her sons were dead. Then Eurydice blamed everything on Creon.
He is also stubborn and his pride is so great he cannot bring himself to acknowledge that he could ever wrong. Creon showed his stubbornness by not wanting to be proved wrong because of pride.
Creon didn’t want to listen to when the people said that Antigone was doing the right thing. The actions that Creon took to cause the downfall of Thebes are that he didn’t want to bury Polyneices. Creon broke the burial law and punished them because they was following the rules, he wants everyone to apply by his rules. Creon advanced the plot and developed the theme, by the way he carry himself. His stubbornness and disrespect makes the theme more interesting. It shows that stubbornness is just as foolish as tyranny. He also has the flaw of judging people, he is very judgmental. Haemon and Creon both felt deep and passionate that their reasons are reasonable. Because that blocks them together as seeing things and from their beliefs. He wants his son to understand that the things are not personal. Creon wants his son and his people to believe in his rulership. Creon’s character is developed as a tragic hero when Haemon led him to take his own life rather than him siding with his father's. He attacks his father to kill himself when he sees that Antigone is dead. Eurydice, Haemon’s mother blames herself for her son to suicide. She killed herself afterwards then she blames it on Creon and curses his name. Haemon and Creon advance the plot by their changes afterwards. The son and father relationship went the total opposite
way.
Haemon says “Even though i’m young, a good idea might come from me (730). It would be the best so far that man will bear full of all the knowledge there is. From that point on their relationship became intense and pointed. The use of stubbornness reflected how their disagreement was. The after that Creon infers that Haemon shouldn’t be loyal to no woman. Haemon was a tragic hero as well because he had the honor to stand up to his father and going against his father wrongdoing rather than him sticking by his side.
Haemon wants to save Antigone because he loves her, and he and others of the city believe that her crime should be forgiven. Haemon believes that while the king should be obeyed, he should also listen to the wisdom of others and know when to compromise. Haemon was a character foil to Creon because he was calm compared to how Creon overreacted He was a catalyst due to when he killed himself after Antigone committed suicide When Haemon committed suicide, his mother, Eurydice, stabbed herself to death because both of her sons were dead. Then Eurydice blamed everything on Creon.