True love is defined as a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair, the emotion of sex and romance. Love is or should be unconditional. Love is giving and selfless, love is therefore unselfish. Love is not arrogant, or does not insist in its own way, it is a celebration of what is right, true love never ends. In the plays Othello, Antigone, and Romeo and Juliet, love leads to the downfall of each of the tragic heroes. The characters excessive love leads them to the end of their own lives.
Haemon the son of Creon, Antigone's uncle is deeply in love with her. His bride is being sentenced to death because she disobeys Creon's orders by burying Polynices" body. Haemon tries to spare Antigone's life by pleading with his father. Haemon is so in love with Antigone that he threatens to die with her. "The city mourns for this girl; they think she is dying/ Most wrongly and undeservedly /should not her name be writ in gold?" He tells Creon that all of Thebes is in Antigone's favor, "No woman ever deserved death less, and such a brutal death for such a glorious action /she deserves a glowing crown of gold".
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Haemon is so deeply respects Antigone and everything that she stands for. He feels so strongly for Antigone that he killed himself to prove his love to her and Creon. Haemon was convinced that if he could not marry Antigone while she was living that he would join her in death. Haemon's love and devotion for Antigone leads him directly to his downfall.
Haemon does not only have excessive love for Antigone he also has it for his father. Haemon is not only fighting for Antigone but he is also trying to help his father out. Haemon knows that the people of Thebes agree that Antigone should not be killed that she was only doing what she believed to have been right. Haemon knows that if Antigone does die that Creon will not rule Thebes for too much longer.