Character:Heamon | The Function of this character:
Sophocles: The character on the side of the Gods, antagonist, the correct person in the play.
Narrative:
You as a director (How do you want the audience to feel about this character? I want the audience to disagree with Creon at the beginning but sympathise him afterwards | How would you cast this character? | I want Heamon to be a likeable character so he should be presented as early 20s and to be dressed quite smart, he will be formal and respectful. | Are there any dominating physical characteristics? What causes them? Wealth? Age? Social condition? | He isn’t really a character that should need any dominating characteristics, I wouldn’t want him of a higher status than Creon or his mother, and he is equal to Antigone (before she is a dishonoured traitor). Of course he could show his wealth and social status over common folk, but he isn’t a character that is meant to be special in anyway. | What are you wearing? What does this show?Think about | Quite rich colours for example red and gold this will show his status and his importance. | What is your overwhelming purpose in life? | Haemon’s character is strange in his purpose, ultimately he is trying to dissuade Creon from carrying out his actions, but this is confused by his kindness towards him in the start of the scene, again this changes near the end of the script to an angrier purpose, which is questionable – to kill his father? | What is said about you? By you, to your face and behind your back? (5 quotes) | 1. “Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else and character too…such men, I tell you, spread them open you will find them empty.” 2. ““Here’s Haemon, the last of your children” 3. “Father, I am yours. You have the wisdom to direct me, and I’ll follow you” 4. “So I, leader of the city… to be taught be an immature boy like you” 5. “His son glared at him with wild eyes and spat in his face.” | What are your reactions to the other characters in the play? | Connections with no one other thanAntigone his wife to beCreon his father who he respectsEurydices his mother. | Do you have an accent? Dialect? | Haemon is a characters that doesn’t need or would benefit from an accent, so therefore, I would have him without one. | How would you first enter, what is your objective? | Haemon enters a scene with the purpose of persuading his father to not to sentence Antigone, and so he should enter with confidence, he tried to flatter and get his dad to listen by being kind and feeding his ego, and what comes naturally fitting to this (as an entrance) is a mutual, confident walk. | What has occurred in your POV since the last entrance? | | Where have you come from? | The transition between scenes here also isn’t clear, we don’t receive much backstory, but is presumable that Haemon has been to visit Antigone from the primary storyline. | What mood are you in? How would you show this? | Told by the messenger Heamons last mood was furious and angry with his father Creon | Do you know the space you have entered? How will you show this? | The last scene heamon is mentioned is entirely told by the messenger. | Exit: Why are you leaving? | Haemon leaves his second scene by killing himself, but with the first scene he somewhat storms out in a fury with his father’s incompetence. | Where are you going? | Heamon probably in fury tried to see Antigone | Have you achieved your aim of why you entered? | Heamon tried to persuade his father Creon to change his mind and free Antigone but this didn’t end well. |