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.