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... as her punishment. He wants her to die of starvation and depression. Creon wants her to live in the cave with misery. Climax "Creon puts Antigone in the cave after she was captured. Antigone did not want to die in misery. She said that her cave was her bridal bed. Antigone used the linen that was in her cave and hung ... ...
... 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...
... hopes to be a wise and good ruler. Later on we learn that he is too inflexible and narrow to heed criticism or admit fault, and that this causes all the misery in his life. The same is true of Antigone. She appears to be a very compassionate individual in the Prologue; however, later on we learn that she is also stubborn and ... ...
... final scenes we see that Jason is truly devastated at the loss of all those he loved. Medea accomplished in taking away everything from Jason. Now he must live in misery while Medea escapes to another life, moving on with no remorse or shame for the murders she had committed. The character of Oedipus went in the other direction in his ... ...
