Antigone

antigone

Read the excerpt below from the play Antigone by Sophocles and complete the instruction that follows.

CREON:
Am I to rule this land
at someone else’s whim or by myself?

HAEMON:
A city which belongs to just one man
is no true city.

CREON:
According to our laws,
does not the ruler own the city?

HAEMON:
By yourself you’d make an excellent king
but in a desert.

CREON:
It seems as if this boy
is fighting on the woman’s side.

Explain the rhetorical appeals that Haemon and Creon use in their arguments to one another.

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Haemon is trying to tell Creon that a good and just King, listens to his subjects. He wants Creon to spare the life of Antigone. Creon says only a weak king listens to the whims of his subjects. He wants to make an example out of Antigone.