... to the hilt" (lines1362-1364). Haemon's act of suicide depicts a gruesome image of him lunging the sword deeply into his body. The grotesque manner of Haemon's suicide reveals his deep misery for his departed bride. While Haemon's intentions of killing his father with the sword failed, Haemon shifts his aggression away from his father and kills himself. While Creon, culpable for ... Antigone's death, does not receive punishment for his unjust civil laws, Haemon, an innocent soul, whose only transgression avows his love for his bride, felt so much misery that he commits suicide. The imag...

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