Antigone-scene 4-5

Creon cries out:

Take her, go!

You know your orders: take her to the vault

And leave her alone there. And if she lives or dies,

That’s her affair, not ours; our hands are clean.

• Believes Antigone has supernatural powers

• Feels uneasy about his decision

• Believes that death is Antigone’s destiny

• Is stalling for time until he makes a final decision

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Creon directly addresses Antigone as she is on the way to be

punished. How does this make the audience see Creon?

• As a strong leader willing to punish even his own family

• As a strong leader who is not afraid of taking charge

• As a weak leader because he is not worried about anything but himself

• As a weak leader because he got personally involved and seems to be rubbing it in that he is powerful.

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What character is able make Creon see his flaw to the extent that he understands his mistake and decides to try to fix the wrong doing.

• Chorus

• Teiresias

• Haimon

• Antigone

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Creon’s motive for finally wishing to free Antigone and bury Polyneices is that

• He has been bribed

• Ismene and Eurydice plead with him to be lenient

• He doesn’t want to risk losing his family and kingdom

• He wants regain his self respect

By choosing to put Antigone in a stone vault rather than having her stoned to death, Creon

• Makes it appear that it was her destiny to die and not his fault

• Acts cowardly by not putting a women to death like he would a man

• Knows that rock is cheaper than rope

• All of the above

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