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What events do Antigone and Ismene discuss during the prologue?
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Their brothers are dead.
Eteocles was buried with full mental honors. No one may bury or mourn for Polynieces. |
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When we meet the sentry for the first time he says that someone tried to bury Polyneices' body?
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True
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What does Creon say happened to Polyneices' body?
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The anarchists did something with it.
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How does Antigone respond to her arrest?
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She is unafraid.
She is unrepentant. |
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Antigone's sister tried to take the blame for her.
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True
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What evidence of the gods' intervention is there in Antigone's attempts to bury her brother?
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A dust storm hid Antigone
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What FINAL sentence does Creon impose on Antigone?
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Lock her in a vault
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Haimon tells his father that there are several reasons he should not put Antigone to death.
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His actions will go against the gods
The people will rebel against you He must be reasonable and listen to what others say |
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In the end, what does Creon discover at Antigone's tomb? Check all that apply.
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Haimon is there
Antigone has hanged herself |
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Who is the father of Antigone?
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Oedipus
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What is one thing that is so surprising about Antigone's father?
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He killed his father to marry his mother
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What is ironic about the deaths of both Antigone and her mother?
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Both took their own life
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Where does this play take place-the setting?
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Thebes
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What are the characteristics of a tragedy according to Aristotle?
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It is serious, it is dramatic, arouses pity and fear.
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What is the unity of plot according to Aristotle?
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Plot should have a beginning, middle, and end, with a total length
suitable to its needs. It should have "a length which allows of the
hero passing by a series of probable or necessary stages from
misfortune to happiness, or from happiness to misfortune..." (105). The
unity of plot consists of the play being
about one event in the life of the protagonist, along with all other
action necessary to that event.
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