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All in the Family
I am the Law!
Sibling Rivalries
Who Said That?
Who said it?
100

What happens to Creon at the end of the play?

He rules Thebes, losing his family.
100
Why did Creon believe that Polyneices was a traitor?
He attacked his own city
100

Why does Ismene try to stop Antigone at the beginning of the play?

Ismene is afraid of Creon's law/punishment

100
I will carry her far away
Out there in the wilderness, and lock her
Living in a vault of stone.
Creon
100

It is the dead / Not the living, who make the longest demands: / We die for ever…

Antingone

200
Eurydice is Haimon's __________
Mother
200
What was the original penalty for burying Polyneices' body?
Public execution by stoning
200
Why doesn't Antigone let Ismene die with her?
Ismene doesn't deserve an honorable death because she didn't help bury Polyneices
200
Do you refuse me, Antigone? I want to die with you.
Ismene
200

"But no one must hear of this, you must tell no one! I will keep it a secret, I promise!"

Ismene

300

What is ironic about Eurydice taking her own life?

She says she can handle bad news.

300
Why does Creon believe that locking Antigone in a cave will "absolve the State of her death"?
He isn't actually *killing* her
300
Why did Polyneices and Eteocles kill each other?
They had a deal, Eteocles broke his promise, and Polyneices attacked Thebes.
300
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
300

"I am aware, of course, that no Ruler can expect complete loyalty from his subjects until he has been tested in office. Nevertheless, I say to you at the very outset that I have nothing but contempt for the kind of Governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare, ––I have no use for him, either."

Creon

400

Creon was Polyneices' _____________

Uncle

400
When the sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, what does Creon threaten him with?
Torture
400
How is Antigone caught burying Polyneices?
The guards dust off the body, and Antigone re-buries it.
400
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.
Haimon
400

"I did not it. I did not see who did it. You must not punish me for what someone else has done."


Sentry

500
How does "Antigone" question gender roles?

It questions traditional women's roles as obedient wives and daughters.

500
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.
500
What were Creon's decrees about each brother's body?
Eteocles: buried/honored as a hero Polyneices: body will be left to rot
500
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
500

"Reason is God’s crowing gift to man, and you are right / To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say–– I/  hope that I shall never want to say! –– / that you / Have reasoned badly. / Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful."


Haemon