"Antigone"
This is the ruler of Thebes and the main antagonist of the play.
Who is Creon?
This is the city in which the play takes place.
What is Corinth?
What are husband and doctor?
This real-life event forms the backdrop of the novel.
What is the Gwangju Uprising?
This social media platform was recently banned in America for a whopping 12 hours.
What is Tik Tok?
This is the name of the brother that Antigone is determined to bury, despite it being forbidden.
Who is Polynices?
This god provides Medea with a chariot to escape Corinth after her revenge.
Who is Helios?
This is the narrative structure of the story.
What are a series of journal entries?
This character’s death serves as the emotional and structural centre of the novel.
Who is Dong-ho?
This meme, often used to humorously express disbelief or annoyance, features a man looking at another woman while his girlfriend looks on disapprovingly.
What is the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme?
This is the Greek god Antigone believes mandates her brother’s burial.
Who is Zeus?
Episode 1 is more famously known as this.
What is the "Women of Corinth" speech?
This point of punctuation represents an extended -- or pregnant -- pause.
What is an em dash?
These symbolise the dehumanisation and erasure of those killed in political violence.
What are decomposing bodies?
This video game gained massive popularity during the pandemic and has continued to be a major influence in gaming culture.
What is Fortnite?
This is the name of the prophet who warns Creon about the wrath of the gods and the dire consequences of his refusal to bury Polynices.
Who is Tiresias?
The city where Medea is originally from.
What is Colchis?
The quote "The only thing I can think of that it is like is the colour of the paper! A yellow smell" is an example of this type of imagery.
What is olfactory imagery?
The recurring motif of scars represent this.
What is physical and psychological trauma?
This artist had the most-streamed song of 2024 on Spotify.
Who is Billie Eilish?
("Birds of a Feather")
Sophocles' motif of trees bending in a storm and ships slackening their sails is in reference to this.
What is the importance of a ruler’s (Creon's) flexibility?
Medea secures sanctuary in Athens from this ruler.
Who is Aegeus?
The pattern in the yellow wallpaper come to represent this.
What is the narrator’s entrapment and / or societal oppression of women?
Dong-ho’s mother’s search for his body serve as a metaphor for this.
What is historical truth?
"Fridays for Future" is a global movement for urgent action on climate change, started by this activist.
Who is Greta Thunberg?