Antigone, Antigone
The act that Antigone is arrested for because Creon has decreed against it
Burying Polyneices, her brother, because he was a "traitor to Thebes".
Brutus' reason for killing Caesar
Loyalty to city; to save the republic of Rome from a possible dictator
"How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong."
Sentry
"You have no right to trample on God's right."
Haimon
Central idea of a literary work
Creon's fatal flaw
Hubris (pride) that prevents him from seeing other perspectices
Cassius' reason for killing Caesar
Personal jealousy in denying Caesar the honorable position
"We are only women. We cannot fight with men..."
Ismene
"Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of dust."
Creon
A major division of a play
Act
Purpose of the Chorus and Choragos
To provide background knowledge, create dialogue between characters, and reinforce themes and ideas about the play.
Character that supports Caesar and opposes Cassius and Brutus' efforts to assassinate him
Marc Antony
"When the laws are kept, how proudly his city stands! When the laws are broken, what of his city then?"
Chorus
"But speak again: whatever it is, I can bear it: Grief and I are no strangers."
Eurydice
Divide the acts of a play
Scenes
The gods
A foil is a character whose personality/actions contrast and therefore highlight another character's personality/actions. Who acts as a foil to Brutus?
Cassius
"There's nothing in the world so demoralizing than money. Down go your cities, home gone, men gone, honest hearts corrupted."
Creon
"You will remember what things I suffer, and at what men's hands, because I would not transgress the laws of heaven."
Antigone
Dialogue
Teiresias's purpose in the play
To expose flaws in charcters and encourage change to avoid future consequences
Inability to listen to warnings and see clearly leads to this character's downfall
Julius Caesar
"This death of mine is of no importance; but if I had left my brother lying in death unburied, I should have suffered."
Antigone
"But come, child: lead me home. Let him waste his fine anger upon younger men. Maybe he will learn at last to control a wiser tongue in a better head."
Teiresias
Tragic flaw