All in the Family
Antigone and Ismene are ________-
sisters
What is Antigone's attitude toward death?
Accepting
What does Antigone recognize as the highest law?
the laws of the gods
Who is the new King of Thebes?
Creon
"If we must lose, let's lose to a man at least. Is a woman stronger than we?"
Creon
Antigone and Haemon are________
engaged (& cousins)
What is the initial punishment for burying Polyneices?
death by public stoning
According to the king, where should man place his highest loyalty?
the government (state)
What do these comments from the Sentry help you infer about Creon?
“I did not do it. I did not see who did it. You must not punish me for what someone else has done.”
Creon is harsh and quick to judge. He can be cruel and unfair, especially if his leadership is threatened.
"I have been a stranger here in my own land: all my life, the blasphemy of my birth has followed me."
Antigone
Eurydice is Haemon's _________
mother
Why does Creon decide to lock Antigone away in a vault of stone?
he's technically not *killing* her - the gods will decide her fate
What is Antigone asking the gods to do in the following lines?
"I have not sinned before God. Or if I have, I shall know the truth in death. But if the guilt lies upon Creon who judged me, then, I pray, May his punishment equal my own."
To punish Creon equally
What does Creon see as the greatest threat to mankind and his biggest fear?
Anarchists and people who disobey laws.
"Think about how much more terrible...our own death would be if we should go against Creon and do what is forbidden?"
Ismene
How is Creon related to Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices?
He's their uncle
Whose deaths set the central conflict of the play into motion?
Eteocles and Polyneices
What does the Chorus believe has prompted Haemon to confront Creon in scene 3?
Love of Antigone
How does Creon respond to the deaths of his wife and son?
He blames himself and recognizes his flaw
"If I am young and right, what does my age matter?"
Haemon
father and (half)brother
Which 3 characters are dead by the Exodos, and how did each die?
Antigone - hanged herself
Haemon - stabbed himself
Eurydice - stabbed her heart with a dagger
"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
The happiest, wisest people submit to the will of the gods. The highest law to follow is the law of the gods.
What fatal flaw do both Antigone and Creon share?
Stubbornness
"The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh..."
Teiresias