Haemon, Creon, and Leader.
Haemon enters, prepared to convince his dad.
Creon: Haemon, you come to discuss the death sentence of Antigone, what’s the deal?
Haemon: Dad, I am your son, and you are the wise guy I call my father, the King of Thebes.
Creon: I very much am son, thank you. So you have become weak because of a woman you have a crush on? Do not fall for her! She will be the death of you. Let her find someone else. How can I uphold my law, if I let you run away with that awful Antigone?! If I let this slide, no one will respect me, let alone follow the laws.
Leader: Whatever you just said makes perfect sense your highness.
Haemon: Yes, Dad, your speech has not changed my mind. When a woman you love is sentenced to death because …show more content…
You think I would change my mind after what you just said?
Haemon: I am saying you are wise, I have yet to become.
Creon: You do have much to learn.
Haemon: You know I do not plead for criminals.
Creon: So she isn’t a criminal, huh?
Haemon: The whole city of Thebes says “no.”
Creon: So I’ll let a mob control my city?
Haemon: Now look who’s speaking like a kid!
Creon: Is it me that rules this place, or someone else?
Haemon: A one manned state is no state at all.
Creon: The state is whoever rules it. Is that clear?
Haemon: The only state you should rule is a desert.
Creon: This kid is lost on the woman’s side.
Haemon: I am on your side. Are you a woman?
Creon: You anger me! Picking fights with your father!
Haemon: Just as you’re fighting with open justice!
Creon: My crime, of course, the discharge of my own rule.
Haemon: What rule is this? You defy the rules of heaven!
Creon: You dumb boi!
Haemon: I am not at all ashamed.
Creon: You’re not ashamed?
Haemon: I speak for you, me and the spirits of all who have passed.
Creon: The dead? Exactly, you’ll never marry Antigone alive.
Haemon: In that case, the dead. One death to beckon another.
Creon: So you came to threaten me?
Haemon: I cannot threaten thin …show more content…
You will regret this telling me this!
Haemon: If you were not my dad, I would say you were crazy.
Creon: You Woman’s slave! Don’t come disgracing me!
Haemon: Sure, make assumptions, and don’t listen to anything I have to say.
Creon: Is that so? Then you better be sure of this: you will not argue and pester at me without punishment. Kill the wretched woman! She must die in front of Haemon, so he can see what he has done.
Haemon: She will not die, dad. Don’t do this, by me or in my sight. You will never see my face again!
Haemon rushes out, distraught.
Leader: He is gone your highness, gone in pain. He is young, his rage will make him quite desperate.
Creon: Let him walk. Let him dream up things as murderous as a friends, these girls, he musn’t snatch from death.
Leader: You’re not going to kill them both?
Creon: You are right. I will not kill the one that didn’t meddle.
Leader: What sort of death are you planning then?
Creon: I will make her suffer for what she did. I’ll hide her away in a vault, with only enough food to barely survive. She will beg for her favorite god, Hades. He might charm her a way to back to life. Or perhaps she will learn though late the cost of homage to the dead is labor
Haemon enters, prepared to convince his dad.
Creon: Haemon, you come to discuss the death sentence of Antigone, what’s the deal?
Haemon: Dad, I am your son, and you are the wise guy I call my father, the King of Thebes.
Creon: I very much am son, thank you. So you have become weak because of a woman you have a crush on? Do not fall for her! She will be the death of you. Let her find someone else. How can I uphold my law, if I let you run away with that awful Antigone?! If I let this slide, no one will respect me, let alone follow the laws.
Leader: Whatever you just said makes perfect sense your highness.
Haemon: Yes, Dad, your speech has not changed my mind. When a woman you love is sentenced to death because …show more content…
You think I would change my mind after what you just said?
Haemon: I am saying you are wise, I have yet to become.
Creon: You do have much to learn.
Haemon: You know I do not plead for criminals.
Creon: So she isn’t a criminal, huh?
Haemon: The whole city of Thebes says “no.”
Creon: So I’ll let a mob control my city?
Haemon: Now look who’s speaking like a kid!
Creon: Is it me that rules this place, or someone else?
Haemon: A one manned state is no state at all.
Creon: The state is whoever rules it. Is that clear?
Haemon: The only state you should rule is a desert.
Creon: This kid is lost on the woman’s side.
Haemon: I am on your side. Are you a woman?
Creon: You anger me! Picking fights with your father!
Haemon: Just as you’re fighting with open justice!
Creon: My crime, of course, the discharge of my own rule.
Haemon: What rule is this? You defy the rules of heaven!
Creon: You dumb boi!
Haemon: I am not at all ashamed.
Creon: You’re not ashamed?
Haemon: I speak for you, me and the spirits of all who have passed.
Creon: The dead? Exactly, you’ll never marry Antigone alive.
Haemon: In that case, the dead. One death to beckon another.
Creon: So you came to threaten me?
Haemon: I cannot threaten thin …show more content…
You will regret this telling me this!
Haemon: If you were not my dad, I would say you were crazy.
Creon: You Woman’s slave! Don’t come disgracing me!
Haemon: Sure, make assumptions, and don’t listen to anything I have to say.
Creon: Is that so? Then you better be sure of this: you will not argue and pester at me without punishment. Kill the wretched woman! She must die in front of Haemon, so he can see what he has done.
Haemon: She will not die, dad. Don’t do this, by me or in my sight. You will never see my face again!
Haemon rushes out, distraught.
Leader: He is gone your highness, gone in pain. He is young, his rage will make him quite desperate.
Creon: Let him walk. Let him dream up things as murderous as a friends, these girls, he musn’t snatch from death.
Leader: You’re not going to kill them both?
Creon: You are right. I will not kill the one that didn’t meddle.
Leader: What sort of death are you planning then?
Creon: I will make her suffer for what she did. I’ll hide her away in a vault, with only enough food to barely survive. She will beg for her favorite god, Hades. He might charm her a way to back to life. Or perhaps she will learn though late the cost of homage to the dead is labor