Similarities Between Antigone And Creon

In the third scene of the play Antigone, Creon makes a stronger argument about the killing of Antigone than Haemon because he more effectively plays on Haemons emotions and uses reasoning to try to persuade Haemon on his ideas. While Haemon had a very good argument with lots of pathos and logos, I feel that his argument comes more out of childish emotions instead of persuasive emotion and logic. And on the other hand Creon more effectively uses his emotions as a persuasive method not as childish thoughts. Also using reason and logic to show Haemon how his childish emotions are unreasonable and blinded from reason. In the scene Creon uses his logic to try to persuade Haemon to see that Creon is doing this to Antigone for a reason and that it is best for this to happen: “If a man can keep his home in hand,/ he proves his competence to keep the state./ But one who breaks the law and flounts authority,/ I never will allow.” (I.iii.221).

And because of this he is trying to show Haemon that he did the right thing. Creon is saying that if a man can do what is right and not let things get out of hand in his house he has the right to continue to rule the state. But if a man flaunts authority and lets things get out of control in his own home they have no right to lead, and he will never allow that to happen. So by doing this to Antigone he is keeping his house in order thereby keeping the state in order as well. Later we can see Creon using emotion as well to try to persuade Haemon that he did the right thing. And later in scene 3 we see Creon talking about how Antigone did an act that Hades even thought wrong and that she has the right to be down there with him: “I’ll leave her pleading to her favorite god,/ Hades. He may charm her out a way to life./ Or perhaps she’ll learn through late the cost/ Of homage to the dead is labor lost.” (I.iii.226). Creon plays with the emotions of his son by taking a shot at his