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Greek Drama
100
-He is the father of Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices and Eteocles. -He was the King of Thebes -He gave his throne to both of his sons, Polyneices and Eteocles.
Who is Oedipus?
100
He killed is own father and became the King of the Gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
She said, "O think, Antigone; we are women; it is not for us to fight against men; our rulers are stronger than we..."
Who is Ismene?
100
What does Haemon mean when he says "Father, there is nothing I can prize above your happiness and well-being. What greater good can any son desire? Can any father desire more from his son? Therefore I say, let not your first thought be your only thought." ?
That I love you and I support you, BUT, I think you should rethink the decision you have made on Antigone, because if you don't something terrible is going to happen.
100
-A serious play that ends sadly/badly. -A play where something bad happens, like death. -A play filled with sadness, pain, death, sorrow, hate, -anger... -A play where a charcter or characters suffer a down fall.
What is a tragedy?
200
-She is the daughter of Oedipus -She is the sister of Antigone, Polyneices and Eteocles -She refused to help Antigone bury Polyneices
Who is Ismene?
200
He is the ruler of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
200
He said, "Go then, and share your love among the dead. We'll have no woman's law here, while I live."
Who is Creon?
200
What does Antigone mean when she says, "Alive across the silent river. No wedding-day; no marriage-music; Death will be my only bridal dower." ?
She is saying that because of her sentence, she will never be able to get married, that death will be the wedding gift she recieves.
200
It is a group of performers who sing, dance, provide exposition and interact with other characters.
What is the Chorus?
300
-He loved his father so much that he tried to advise him to to the right thing. -He took his own life to be with his beloved forever.
Who is Haemon?
300
They are the 9 sisters who all had beautiful talents.
Who are the muses?
300
He said, "On every side I hear voices of pity for this poor girl, doomed to the cruellest death, and most unjust, that ever woman suffered for an honourable action...such is the secret talk about the town."
Who is Haemon?
300
What does Creon mean when he says, "In the practice of authority and rule, for my part, I have always held the view, and hold it still, that a king whose lips are sealed by fear, unwilling to seek advice, is damned." ?
He means that any king, or anyone, who refuses to listen and take the advice of others will suffer serious consequences. This also foreshadows what happens to Creon at the end of the play.
300
It is a characteristic that leads the the down-fall/doom of the character. It could be a quality in a character that is not bad, but becomes bad due to an unbalance of emotions.
What is a tragic flaw?
400
-He is loyal to his own law. -He prohibited anyone from burying his nephew.
Who is Creon?
400
He traveled to the underworld to convince Hades and Persephone to let his wife back into the living world.
Who is Orpheus?
400
He said "Where is the equal of love? Where is the battle he cannot win, the power he cannot outmatch?"
Who is the chorus?
400
What does Creon mean when he says, "I'll have her taken to a desert place where no man ever walked, and there walled up inside a cave, alive, with food enough to acquit ourselves of the blood-guiltiness..." ?
Creon is saying that he will lock Antigone inside a cave with barely enough food so that he doesn't feel guilty of the sentence he has given her.
400
loyalty, pride, regret, power, oppression, resistance, honor, defiance, compassion
What are 3 social criticism terms that we used in analyzing Antigone?
500
-He did not want to be held responsible for burying Polyneices -He brought Antigone to Creon
Who is the sentry?
500
He is the God of music, light and reason. She is the Goddess of hunt and all new-born creatures. They are brother and sister.
Who is Artemis and Apollo?
500
She said, "Never a bride, never a mother, unfriended, condemned alive to solitary death."
Who is Antigone?
500
What does Teiresias mean when he tells Creon, "Even now the avenging Furies, the hunters of Hell that follow and destroy, are lying in wait for you, and will have their prey, when the evil you have worked for others falls on you."?
Teiresias is saying that if Creon does not fix all of the chaos he has caused, that the furies of hell will have him as their prey and that the evil he has shown will be shown to him in the underworld.
500
The main character that the reader follows and usually likes.
Who is the protaganist of the play?