The purpose of the ____ section in the play is to act as a curtain and to recap the events in the play, before every scene.
What is the Ode?
This person said "I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I will lie with the one I love and loved by him—an outrage sacred to the gods! "
Who is Antigone.
Who is the author of Antigone? And where is the setting?
Sophocles and Greece
What is Pride drives people to make poor and hurtful decisions an example of?
What is the theme of Antigone?
What do ethos, pathos, and logos mean?
Pathos: appeal to emotion
Logos: appeal to logic, reason, or intelligence
What is a fatal flaw that Creon and Antigone have in common?
What is Pride?
What is the meaning of hubris?
Excessive Pride
Creon changes his mind to this from the original decree of death to Antigone?
What is from death, to locking Antigone into a vault.
What do Tiresias' final words to Creon drive him to do?
What is free Antigone, before trading corpse for corpse and flesh for flesh?
What is the dramatic irony, something the audience knows-- but most or all of the characters do not, at the beginning of the play?
Antigone plans to bury the body of Polyneices
These are the three people that died towards the end of the play, and how they died.
Who is Haemon, Antigone, and Eurydice. All died by suicide.
What is the peripeteia, or a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, of Antigone?
The death of Haimon and Eurydice, because of Creon only aiming to kill Antigone-- and as a result losing his son and wife.