Characters
A subservient sister.
Antigone's parents.
Who are Oedipus and Jocasta?
The reason Ismene says no to helping Antigone.
What is because she respects Creon's law and does not want to be killed?
Antigone cares more about their rules than the laws of man.
Who are the gods?
The initial punishment for burying Polynices.
What is being stoned to death?
A character seen as a traitor.
Who is Polynices?
Haemon's parents.
Who are Creon and Eurydice?
What the townspeople think about Creon's edict
What is indignation for Antigone's unjust and unfair treatment?
A character that believed in fate and tried to warn other characters.
Who is Tiresias?
Three characters who act on their emotions.
Who are Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice?
A character that gives auguries.
Who is Tiresias?
Antigone's brothers. ***
Who are Polynices, Eteocles, and Oedipus? (must get all three***)
The prophecy Creon receives from Tiresias.
What is that one of his children will die if he doesn't bury Polynices and free Antigone?
Who is Antigone?
Creon does not find this character guilty of the burial.
Who is Ismene?
A character seen as a despot.
Who is Creon?
Jocasta's brother.
Who is Creon?
Who Creon initially thinks buried the body AND WHY.
Who is a male guard that was bribed?
A character that shows corrupt power AND WHY.
Who is Creon because he uses his power for himself without taking any advice into consideration?
How Creon feels at the END of the play.
What is defeated, broken, guilty, and ready to die?
A character seen as a hero.
Who is Eteocles?
Oedipus' adoptive parents.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
How Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice die (3 part question).
What is by hanging herself in a noose of linen, stabbing himself through the ribs, and stabbing herself through the heart?
The god that the Chorus prays to in Antigone
When Antigone says her family is cursed, the curse (or prophecy) she is referring to.
What is that Oedipus was fated to marry his mother and kill his father?