Define persuasion. What would you like to persuade your parents to do or think? Explain which of the three goals of persuasive speech you would need to accomplish to achieve this.

How does the play resolve the conflict between conscience and law? creon acts according to the law, not the conscience of advisors, and is punished. each character chooses familial loyalty over civil obedience and is punished. the deaths of haemon and eurydice fulfill the prophecy. creon sentences antigone to death even though haemon asks him to reconsider.