Episode 3

Question 1

Creon’s expectation of HAemon

Answer 1

“do you love me no matter what I do?”

Question 2

HAemon loves his father

Answer 2

appeals to family: “I’m your son”
“you in your wisdom se my bearing for me–I obey you”
“no marriage could ever mean more to me than you

Question 3

How Creon thinks HAemon should feel

Answer 3

you ought to feel subordinate to your father’s will in every way

Question 4

What does a man pray for

Answer 4

a man prays to produce good sons (he has this now but will lose it)

Question 5

danger of a woman

Answer 5

“never lose your sense of judgement over a woman” (in many ways this is what he has done)

Question 6

the greatest hurt

Answer 6

no wound cuts deeper than a loved one turned against you (this is what he is about to do, what he has done to Antigone, he doesn’t realise this is all his doing)

Question 7

Why must he kill her

Answer 7

He’s proud, hes not going to prove himself a liar to his people, hes going to kill her because of pride.

Question 8

Importance of ruling and laws

Answer 8

a man who rules his household well is fit to rule the state (but hes failing)
who violates laws will win no praise from me, the man placed by the city in authority his orders must be obeyed right or wrong (he’s undermining the gods’ law)

Question 9

Anarchy

Answer 9

There is no greater crime than Anarchy
destroys cities
breaks spearmen into headlong rout

Question 10

Creon links Anarchy and women together, places them as the enemy and rule and law as the good

Answer 10

therefore we must defend the men who live by law, never let some women triumph over us (in the same sentence, anarchy and women are not synonymous, the hint of nonsense permeates through his argument)
never be rated inferior to a woman, never/

Question 11

Leader’s reaction to Creon’s speech

Answer 11

Leader says that what he has to say he says with sense

Question 12

Haemon on Reason and making mistakes

Answer 12

-reason is the finest of all the gods gifts

I haven’t the skill or desire to tell you if you make a slip in speech

Question 13

Haemon, the people’s real opinion of Antigone

Answer 13

the man in the street dreads your glance would never say anything displeasing to your face (what people have been saying all along)
the city mourns for this girl, no woman ever deserved death less for such a glorious action she deserves a glowing crown of gold
the rumour spreads in secret, darkly”- shows him to be manipulative

Question 14

Haemon honours him

Answer 14

I rejoice in your success, nothing more precious to me in the world (a lie)
“What medal of honour brighter to his children than a father’s growing glory? OR a child’s to his proud father”

Question 15

Haemon tells Creon not to be unbending

Answer 15

Don’t be so single minded and assume the world is wrong and you are right
It’s no disgrace, even for a wise man, to learn things and not be too rigid
“You’ve seen” trees that bend left intact, the stubborn are ripped out by a raging torrent
if a sailing man hauls his sheets too taught, the boat will capsize (ship of state), popular image in Athenian literature used by Plato, common image to the Athenians)

Question 16

Leader supports them both

Answer 16

LEader, advises Creon to learn from him, tells Haemon to learn from Creon, you are both talking sense.

Question 17

Age

Answer 17

Creon: men of our age are to be lectured by a boy his age?

Haemon: look less to my years and more to what I do

Question 18

rebels

Answer 18

Creon: thinks “do” means admiring rebels, asks if he believes it is an achievement (he is unbending)

HAemon
the whole city denies that Antigone has committed treason.

Question 19

Creon on ruling

Answer 19

Creon: is the city going to tell me how to rule
am I to rule this city for others or myself
his response to HAeon’s point that its not a city if owned by one man alone: “the city’s the king’s that’s the law!” (he misinterprets laws)
-I do believe hes fighting on the woman’s side (not a question of gender but one of right and wrong)

Question 20

Haemon is worried about CReon, Creon’s irrationality is shown

Answer 20

Haemon states that his concern is all for him, he knows Creon is in danger,
Creon doesn’t understand and thinks he’s threatening him, his own father, with justice.
HAemon points out that hes offending justice

Question 21

What CReon thinks he’s doing, but what HAemon points out hes actually doing

Answer 21

Creon says hes protecting his royal rights

Haemon says but he trampling down the honours of the gods (Creon has put himself above the gods).

Question 22

Creons violent insults and threats

Answer 22

Creon’s final insult is “you woman’s slave” (it becomes clear that there is a gender issue and a sense of personal pride)

Creon threatens to kill her in front of him, beside her groom

Question 23

Haemon rushes out

Answer 23

Haemon rushes out saying he will never see him again

Leader warns that HAemon might do something violent