What happens to Haemon at the end of
In Antigone by Sophocles, Haemon kills himself after failing to convince his father, King Creon, to spare Antigone's life. Antigone has disobeyed Creon's order not to bury her brother Polyneices, and Creon sentences her to be entombed alive. When Haemon pleads with Creon to relent, Creon refuses, and Haemon goes to Antigone's tomb. When he discovers that he is too late and that Antigone has hanged herself, Haemon then uses Antigone's brooch to stab himself in the gut. The chorus comments in horror that both love and fate have destroyed him. At the very end of the play, a messenger reveals this news to Creon, which fills him with despair and ultimately destroys him (he kills himself too) as well.