Who Said That?
I will carry her far away
Out there in the wilderness, and lock her
Living in a vault of stone.
Creon
Why doesn't Ismene want to help Antigone at the beginning of the play?
Ismene is afraid of Creon's law/punishment
Why did Creon believe that Polyneices was a traitor?
He attacked his own city
Ismene and Eteocles are
brother and sister
How does Antigone die?
she hangs herself
Do you refuse me, Antigone? I want to die with you.
Ismene
Why doesn't Antigone let Ismene die with her?
Ismene doesn't deserve an honorable death because she didn't help bury Polyneices
What was the original penalty for burying Polyneices' body?
Public execution by stoning
Eurydice is Haimon's
mother
Who else dies after Antigone was discovered?
Haemon and Queen Eurydice
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
Why did Polyneices and Eteocles kill each other?
They had a deal, Eteocles broke his promise, and Polyneices attacked Thebes.
Why does Creon believe that locking Antigone in a cave will "absolve the State of her death"?
He isn't actually "killing" her
Antigone plans to marry Haimon, who is also her
cousin
Who does Antigone blame fore her terrible misfortune?
Sins of her father
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
How is Antigone caught burying Polyneices?
The guards dust off the body, and Antigone re-buries it.
When the sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, what does Creon threaten him with?
Torture
Creon was Polyneices
Uncle
Whose fate does Antigone compare to her own?
to Niobe, Tantalos' daughter
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
What were Creon's decrees about each brother's body?
Eteocles: buried/honored as a hero Polyneices: body will be left to rot
When Haimon tries to convince Creon to free Antigone, what does Creon threaten to do in order to teach Haimon a lesson?
Kill Antigone right in front of Haimon.
Oedipus was Antigone's
father and half brother
What does Antigone beg the people of Thebes to bear witness to?
how she was denied pity and unjustly judged by Creon