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Haimon's Lesson In Sophocles Antigone

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1. Haimon attitudes when he convey his father at the beginning of the scene seem to be imploring or flattering. At the end of the scene, he starts to show that he had a mind of his own and could think, and he was just respecting his father.

2. Creon's advice to Haimon about women is that Haimon should not lose his head in women, although Creon, he himself didn't have any experience about women when he misjudges Antigone. Creon thinks that she would try to get out of the punishment for doing what she thought was right and that she would do it through some underhanded method.

3. Haimon persudes his father by saying that Antigone is his love of life, and if you kill Antigone, he will commit suicide so that both can honor the gods. Haimon compares Creon to a tree that doesn't bend and gets torn up for being stubborn, and in a nutshell, he saying that stubborness will only lead to him breaking it. …show more content…

Haimon says that if Antigone dies, it will lead to the death of another meaning himself. The dramatic irony that is revealed in his threat is that he will not kill himself, he is just trying to convey his father since he's his son. Creon thinks that Haimon is threatening that if Creon kills Antigone, he then will kill

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