Key Ideas and Details: Why does Antigone admit what she has done even though she knows Creon will punish her? Provide evidence from the text to support your inference. Why does the guard hesitate to tell Creon the News? When King Creon finds out, he becomes furious and orders Antigone to be walled up alive in a tomb.
They both wanted the power to be king As the play opens, Antigone tells her sister, Ismene, that an edict has been placed over the city of Thebes. No one can bury Polynices, Creon announced it What is the punishment for disobeying the edict? Death by public stoning What does Antigone ask Ismene to do, and how does Ismene respond? They died What point is Ismene trying to make in the following statement?
She then says:It seems fair to me to die doing it. According to her reasoning, why is Antigone willing to die for burying her brother? Because she wants to die next to her family and she will be there dead forever Write the line that show how Antigone now feels about Ismene. What simile does the Chorus use to describe the invading army? With a wing as white as snow The Chorus in a Greek drama is often made up of a group of people whose identity is relevant to the story being told.
Because he is the closest relative to Oedipus Creon uses a metaphor to describe his country. My country is safety itself, and only when she is upright can our sailing find friends. The country is a boat and he is the captain of the ship. Creon discusses the edict and explains his reasons for it. He says whoever is friendly to the city will in life and death be equally honored by him and they seem to be valid The Chorus tries to assure Creon that no one is foolish enough to disobey his edict and risk death.
People have convinced other people to die for their dreams What news does the guard bring to Creon? Someone has buried the corpse and disappeared How does the Chorus respond to this news? He gets very angry What does Creon accuse the guards of? He accuses them of being bribed How does Creon feel about money? Write the lines from the play that support your answer. It has shown men how to be villainous and to know every sort of godlessness According to Creon, what will happen to the guards if they do not find the person who buried Polynices?
Unless they find the person who buried the body, they will be hanged alive As the Chorus begins Ode 1, what adjective does it use to describe humanity? Wondrous The Chorus describes the many ways in which humanity has triumphed over nature. Immortality Who brings Antigone in front of Creon, and why? A guard, because Creon told the guards to look for the person who buried the body When the guard explains the events that led up to the capture of Antigone, he begins by describing what he and the other guards did to the body of Polynices.
They brushed off all the dust and left it there because it smelled very bad The guard recounts a strange and dramatic event that occurred just moments before Antigone returned to the site of the body.
A cyclone lifted up from the ground in a storm of dirt According to the guard, how did Antigone react upon seeing the uncovered body of Polynices?
She was wailing bitterly like the shrill voice of a bird who sees her empty nest, stripped of its nurslings What did Antigone do to the body as the guards watched? She admits to being guilty How does Antigone explain to Creon her reason for breaking the law? She says it was the gods law to bury the body How does Antigone feel about dying?
She says she did it too even though she did not do it What two topics is Ode 2 about? Never give up your wits for a woman because of the pleasure What reason does Creon give for having to kill Antigone? The city weeps for her Haemon uses two metaphors to explain to his father that being stubborn is irrational and often harmful. Then she will die and, dying destroys another, foreshadowing When Haemon leaves Creon at the end of their argument, what does he say? Antigone will not die beside me and you will never see me again Creon tells the Chorus that he will not kill Ismene but he will still punish Antigone.
He will leave her on an island, so that the city will escape all pollution In Ode 3, the Chorus employs personification to describe love. Love, unconquered in battleB. Love, who attacks wealth How does the Chorus react upon seeing Antigone being led in by the guards? They cry Whose bride does Antigone say she will be? The bride of death Antigone claims that she has no friends and that no one will mourn her.
No, she has Ismene Who does Antigone blame for her impending death? She blames her brother Antigone states that she would not have defied the edict if the dead person had been her husband or child. Because why would she bury it if it was not part of her family, yes it makes sense Ode 4 describes three myths of others who have been buried alive in tombs. Tiresias is a very famous blind prophet, he usually gets omens from the birds.
The birds have been screaming with evil. The altars and hearths are defiled by birds and dogs with carrion flesh from the corpse of the unlucky son of Oedipis Polynesis. They are spreading rotting flesh around the city and making everyone sick. I am not even left untouched by the seers! By your kind I was brought and sold and carried home a long time ago. Says that he was bribed and that is why he is saying all that nonsense.
Haemon is going to die an exchange, corpse for corpse. He has never been wrong, he is always right Whose advice does Creon finally take? It anticipates that Creon will remedy the situation and save the day.
It is a prayer to Dionisis What news does the messenger bring to the Chorus? He spits at Creon and then tries to stab him, but misses. Himself What news does the second messenger reveal to Creon? She stabbed herself in the heart. He wishes to die. The Chorus is saying that his punishment is saying that he has to remember what he did and live with it Tell what the Chorus says in the last six lines of the play, in your own words.
It is saying that knowledge is the most powerful thing you can have, but never use it for evil uses. It is also saying that the older we get, the wiser we get; and the more knowledge we get. Sophocles Who was engaged to Antigone? Eurydice Who is the god of wine and fertility? Dionysos Who is the blind prophet? Teiresias Who is too frightened to bury her brother? Ismene What monster did Oedipus defeat by answering the riddle? Creon Which brother received a proper burial?
Eteocles Which brother did not receive a proper burial? Polyneices Which two characters are foils? Ismene and Antigone Foils are characters whose differences are highlighted through their contrasts. Name that god. Dionysos Why did the messenger fear telling Creon about the burial of Polyneices? He feared Creon and how Creon might punish him with death. She hangs herself with her wedding veil. Teiresias, although blind, has insight into the future while Creon, who has his sight, lacks insight and knowledge.
What does Oedipus do when he finds out he has killed his father and married his mother? He gouges out his eyes. The main conflict in the play is what? Why does Antigone want to bury her brother? Because her conscience tells her it is the right thing to do.
All family members deserve an honorable burial. How does Antigone bury her brother? Death by stoning What was the basic purpose of the chorus? He loses his son, niece, and wife they all die. How did the two brothers, Etocles and Polyneices, die? Polyneices was considered a traitor by King Creon for attacking the city of Thebes.
What is her justification? She plans to disobey Creon, bury her brother Polyneices. She is too afraid of recrimination to help Antigone What city des the play take place in? Thebes What news does the sentry bring Creon? Someone has secretly covered the body of Polyneies with just enough dirt to be considered as buried by the gods. And hows does Antigone respond to Ismene?
She now thinks she did the right thing and wants to be punished with her. Antigone rejects her offer. And what does he, then, advise his father to do? Haemon claims that the city of Thebes does not view Antigone as a criminal. She will be given some provisions of food. Creon claims that all prohpets love gold. What advice does the Choragos give to King Creon once Teiresias leaves? When he missed in his attempt to kill the king, he turned th sword on himself. He died with Antigone in his arms What happened after the messenger relayed the news about Haemon and Antigone to Eurydice?
Eurydice walked silently into the house, went to the alter, and killed herself. What he did? Antigone Flashcards. Mythological Allusions From Antigone February 16, Antigone Scene 2 Questions February 16, Creon is the rightful king, as he is the only male heir left in the family.
She is calling Creon a fool. Uses looks as her power; amoral, not evil; her nature is to be irresistible EX:Aphrodite, Juliet. Famous greek dramatist Athenian , added protagonist character, created traveling theater troupe,modern word thespian meaning actor comes from Thespis. Admired,but flawed; confronted by hostile forces such as society, life rules, family, or fate; character often refuses to acquiesce to such forces and is forced to make important moral decisions. Larger than life- memorable person, of noble birth, presence of a tragic flow Hamartha , realization of the flaw by the end of the play.
The chorus recounts the battle between 2 brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, and their armies; the chorus suggests that Zeus intervened on the side of Eteocles and drove back the Argive army. Choragos, Ismene, Sentry. Predictable or stereotypical characters that appear throughout literary works Sentry-Comic relief. Circular, flat area located in front of the scene building on which the chorus of a Classical Greek play performed.
Adjacent to the orchestra facing the theate on that provided an entrance for actors and space for costume changes and scenic devices. Setting area of a Classical Greek theatre. Drama that tells the story of the fall of a person of high status.
Necessary information about the background of the characters and situation in a play. Series of events that lead to the climax of the story, usually the conflicts or struggles of the protagonist conflict. Includes the elements of the plot in which the hero protagonist moves steadily toward the inevitable conclusion. Conclusion of linear plot, the portion following the click where the action is brought to s close and any remaining plot details are resolved.
Author or Antigone. Most important playwrights in lit. Transformed these hymns into songs that honored Dionysos but also told the story of a famous hero or even another god. Son and brother of Oedipus; refuses to handover the throne and is killed in battle over it by his brother.
Oracle of Delphi said he would kill his father and marry his mother and he eventually did; rids Thebes of the sphinx; stabs out his eyes when he realizes what he did.
Queen of Thebes and mother and wife to Oedipus; hangs herself once it is realized that Oedipus is also her son. Up to 50 members; used to foreshadow, set mood, react to onstage events; represent a large range of characters. He isnt going to let family get in the way of his work. Creon thinks woman arent brave and he thinks men should have authority.
The main or central character. The character of force that opposes or blocks the main character protagonist in a narrative. Creon tells his men to lock the girls up and make sure they do not get away. Pages 28, Lines They sing about how such punishment will arise from such a little thing, the spreading of a thin layer of dust over the body of Polyneices. The chorus then declares that there is no escape from imminent disaster. Creon claims that Haemon is blinded by love and must see that the law is more powerful.
Creon then states that he is going to take Antigone to a cave and bury her alive so she can starve. Haemon then states the he is not going to be around Antigone when she is killed and runs off. How love conquers all battles and how it prevails over everything. Then they weep over the fate of Antigone and how she will never be the bride of Haemon. Creon then states that he has no mercy, and leads her to her doom. They then reflect upon how her brothers too, were of noble blood and how their deaths were so miserable.
He tells Creon that his punishment for not giving a proper burial will be the life of his son. Creon believes that the prophet is mocking him and disregards his warning. Such as Creon, he should wisely listen to the blind prophet because he has never been wrong before. Creon is devastated and returns to the kingdom only to learn that his wife has also killed herself because of the loss of her son.
The state that wisdom is a very powerful tool and should be used wisely otherwise the gods will punish you for your actions. Pages 60, Lines Sophocles, Antigone. Themes in Antigone. A major theme evident within this tragedy is pride.
As a result, it led to both of their self-destructions, as they killed each other in a battle for power. As a result, she goes against the very strict law that Creon placed within Thebes. By the time Creon finally realized that it was the gods who held the highest power, it was too late. Creon also states that his son is like a slave to Antigone and mocks his son for not respecting his power.
The ancient Greeks did not permit women to govern or to vote, but they recognized that females often had a better sense of what is right and just than men: they were the survivors of the wars initiated and fought by men; they preserved the family; they washed the bodies of the dead and performed the rituals of lamentation. Women played significant roles in the theatre in Athens, despite the restrictions imposed on ordinary women in private life.
Antigone belongs to the last surviving generation of a family that suffered because they did not follow the instructions of the gods. Her grandfather Laius was warned not to beget a child but did so nonetheless. The child, as was the ancient custom, was taken to a remote place to die, either from starvation or as a victim of predators.
But instead he was given to a shepherd to be raised in another city. When the child, whose name was Oedipus, learned that he might have been adopted, he went to the oracle at Delphi to learn who his true parents were and was told that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He thought he could avoid fulfilling the oracle by staying away from Corinth. But on his way north he killed an older man, without knowing the man was his father, and he later married the widow of the king of Thebes, Jocasta, unaware that she was his mother.
They had two daughters, Antigone and Ismene, and two sons, Eteocles and Polynices. He blinds himself and is sent into exile by the new ruler, his brother-in-law Creon. But before he dies he puts a curse on his two sons, who are fighting with each other over who will become king of Thebes. When Polynices brings an army from Argos to attack Eteocles in Thebes, the two brothers kill each other in battle, and Creon becomes king.
It is at this point that the action of Antigone begins. But even though Antigone deals with what is chronologically the last part of the story, it was performed in a different dramatic contest from that of the other two plays. Everyone else thinks his action is wrong, but everyone except Antigone is afraid to do anything about it.
Antigone insists that, as his closest relative she is obliged to bury her brother.
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