Antigone Persuasive Speech Analysis

The idea of persuading and how to properly be persuasive can differ from person to person but the ancient Greek ideas of ethos, logos, and pathos(or ethical, logical, and emotional), always are incorporated into being persuasive in any situation. Sophocles’ story of Antigone, daughter and sister of Oedipus, shows Antigone as a rebellious character who believes her religion and morals over her government’s demands. Following a great battle both Eteocles and Polynices, brothers of Antigone, die and Eteocles receives a proper military burial and honouring but Polyneices is deemed a traitor and is left to rot in the fields and in turn being denied an afterlife. Finding this to be ridiculous and horrible, Antigone proceeds to bury him even after it being announced as illegal and punishable by death, declared by the recently appointed king her own uncle/brother Creon, and is inevitably caught. Throughout the many speeches in Sophocles’ “Antigone”, few characters utilize the appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos more than Haimon son of Creon, Creon himself, and of course Antigone when they are attempting to persuade others to be swayed by their desperate perspectives. The character of Creon always seems to be extremely egotistical and prideful, leading to him being the unexpected tragic hero of the story, gives many speeches throughout the story of Antigone in attempts to persuade, always using the Greek ideas of ethos, logos, and pathos in his desperation to get his point across. Creon’s introduction to …show more content…
With Antigone being captured and sentenced to death by her uncle, Haimon feeling anger and fear goes to plead to his father to spare his bride-to-be’s life for she was only doing what she felt was