Antigone 2018

What angers Antigone at the beginning of the play?

• The elders of Thebes honor Eteocles

• Creon refuses to hear her complaints

• Polyneices attacks Thebes and kills Eteocles

• Ismene refuses to help bury Polyneices

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Reread the following comments from the sentry in Scene 1. “I did not do it. I did not see who did it. You must not punish me for what someone else has done.” What do the comments help you infer about Creon?

• He respects honesty.

• He acts without fairness.

• He is easily fooled by others.

• He feels sympathy for commoners.

What is the dramatic irony in Scene 1?

• The sentry knows who buried Polyneices, but Creon doesn’t

• The audience knows Antigone buried Polyneices out of love for her brother

• Creon threatens the sentry because he knows the sentry buried him

• The chorus knows Antigone buried Polyneices for money

Whose laws does Antigone say she follows?

• The gods’

• Oedipus’

• Her own

• Creon’s

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According to the Choragus, Antigone and her father’s shared tragic flaw is they

• Act stubbornly

• Hate all rules

• Defy all authority

• Understand the gods

The irony in Scene 2 comes from…

• Creon assuming Ismene helped, when we know she was too afraid

• Ismene taking part of the blame, and Antigone rebuking her

• The Choragus criticising Antigone, when later they’re on her side

• Creon not caring about whether Haemon is meant to marry Antigone

In Scene 3 lines 119-121, Haemon and Creon discuss Antigone’s punishment: Haemon: “Then she must die. But her death will cause another.” Creon: Another? / Have you lost your senses? Is this an open threat?” What is it that Creon’s tragic flaw causes him to misunderstand?

• He thinks Haemon means to kill him, when really Haemon is threatening suicide.

• He thinks Haemon means to kill Antigone before he can sentence her

• He thinks Haemon means to commit suicide after killing him.

• Haemon is threatening to sneak in and kill everyone in revenge.

In Scene 4, line 57 when Creon states, “...our hands are clean” in relation to Antigone’s death, it is ironic because…

• He hasn’t washed his hands since the battle

• He is innocent, but the Choragus is guilty

• His hands are “dirty” since he is the one who sentenced her

• Creon doesn’t have hands

In lines 33-35 of Scene 5, Teiresias states, “O my son, These are no trifles! Think: all men make mistakes, But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong” What can you infer about Teiresias’ values?

• He is prideful

• He is seeking atonement

• He values trifles

• He holds onto hope

When Teiresias states that his words to Creon will be “too costly,” he means…

• Creon doesn’t have enough gold to pay for his prophecies

• The wisdom he has he paid for by becoming blind.

• Creon will end up paying for them with the lives of his family.

• The person who paid him off pays better than Creon.