10A- I will give you a hard copy of this in class tomorrow. I will also let you know what your group divisions and group assignments are. This will be due on Monday.
10B- this is due Friday. I wanted to post this up so you would have this all for yourselves if you wanted.
Write each answer thoughtfully and thoroughly in complete sentences. Provide a page reference for each answer.
1. Who is Antigone's father?
2. Who is Antigone's sister?
3. What are the names of Antigone's brothers?
4. How was Eteocles treated after his death?
5. How was Polynices treated after his death?
6. Who commanded that Antigone's brothers should be treated differently? How is he related to Antigone?
7. What command/law has Creon made about Polynices? What is the punishment for breaking Creon's law?
8. What does Antigone want Ismene to do with her? Why does she want to do it?
9. Why doesn't Ismene want to help Antigone? List three reasons.
10. After Ismene refuses to help Antigone, how does Antigone's attitude toward her sister change?
11. What does Antigone say her death will be if she is punished for burying her brother?
12. Why does Antigone feel justified in disobeying the law that Creon made? Whose laws does she think she is following?
13. What does Ismene think about Antigone's "quest" to bury her brother?
14. Compare and contrast the characters of Antigone and Ismene.
15. According to the Chorus in lines 117-172, what does Zeus hate with a vengeance?
16. Whose downfall and defeat does the Chorus sing of in lines 117-139?
17. According to the Chorus, who is "the Dragon none can master"?
18. According to the Chorus, why were Polynices and his army defeated?
19. Why is Creon now the king of Thebes?
20. According to Creon, how can you know a man completely?
21. Who is worthless, according to Creon?
22. What is more important to Creon, his country or his friends?
23. Compare Creon's value system with Antigone's value system.
24. What does Creon say about safety, friendship, and his country?
25. WHat command does Creon make concerning the burial of Polynices?
26. What kind of man does Creon value the most?
27. What has Creon done to keep people from burying Polynices?
28. What new does the Sentry bring to Creon? Describe the Sentry's attitude toward Creon.
29. Summarize the Sentry's story about how they discovered that funeral rites had been performed on the body (that thebody had been "buried"), what their reaction was, and why this particular man is the one bringing Creon the news.
30. How does Creon respond when he hears the Chorus Leader's suggestion that the gods "buried" Polynices' body? Why does he think this is not possible?
31. According to Creon, who "buried" the body of Polynices? Why did they do it?
32. How does Creon threaten the Sentry? What does this reveal about his style of leadership?
33. What is the theme of the second Choral ode on lines 375-425?
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