All in the Family
Ismene and Etocles are ___________
Brother and sister
Why did Creon believe that Polyneices was a traitor?
He attacked his own city
Why doesn't Ismene want to help Antigone at the beginning of the play?
Ismene is afraid of Creon's law/punishment
I will carry her far away
Out there in the wilderness, and lock her
Living in a vault of stone.
Creon
This is how Oedipus brought a curse upon his family.
He married mom and killed dad.
Eurydice is Haemon's __________
Mother
What was the original penalty for burying Polyneices' body?
Public execution by stoning
Why doesn't Antigone let Ismene die with her?
Ismene doesn't deserve an honorable death because she didn't help bury Polyneices
Do you refuse me, Antigone? I want to die with you.
Ismene
These are the two reasons why Creon does not allow Polynieces to be buried.
What is his escape from exile and warring against his brother, Eteocles, who stood for their family's kingdom.
Antigone plans to marry Haemon, who is also her ________
Cousin
Why does Creon believe that locking Antigone in a cave will "absolve the State of her death"?
He isn't actually *killing* her
Why did Polyneices and Eteocles kill each other?
They had a deal, Eteocles broke his promise, and Polyneices attacked Thebes.
Oh tell it! Tell everyone!
Think how they'll hate you when it all comes out
If they learn that you knew about it all along!
Antigone
This is Haemon's final act before he commits suicide.
Attempt to kill Creon.
Creon was Polyneices' _____________
Uncle
When the sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, what does Creon threaten him with?
Torture
How is Antigone caught burying Polyneices?
The guards dust off the body, and Antigone re-buries it.
I have heard them
Muttering and whispering in the dark about this girl
They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably,
Died so shameful a death for a generous act.
Haemon
This is why Antigone's death is an instance of dramatic irony.
Creon was coming to free Antigone
Oedipus was Antigone's father and _____________
(half) brother
When Haemon tries to convince Creon to free Antigone, what does Creon threaten to do in order to teach Haemon a lesson?
Kill Antigone right in front of Haemon.
What were Creon's decrees about each brother's body?
Eteocles: buried/honored
Polyneices: body will be left to rot
The time is not far off when you shall pay back
Corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh
You have thrust a child of this world into living night
You have kept from the gods below a child that is theirs.
Tiresias
These are the three people that died and how they died.
Haemon, Antigone, and Eurydice. All died by suicide.