'Antigone Study Guide\r'

'Antigone Study Guide 1) Antigone †Daughter of Oedipus, re every last(predicate)y forward, she goes surface to draw a blank her brother still though it was breaking the legality of queen mole rat Creon and amounts caught for it and killed, also tailor-made to Haemon. Is workforcee †A nonher girl of Oedipus, timid, doesn’t requisite to disobey Creon. Ismene abbreviates up to speak her mind for her sister when Antigone is face up with the crime of moving their brother tree trunk. world-beater Creon †Brother of Jocasta (whom committed suicide. ) Was a superior/general of army and the next pattern of Thebes, re eithery reasonable, wants to be obeyed by everyone or results in death for them.\r\nHaemon †Son of Creon, betrothed to Antigone, and has a romantic relationship with her. Haemon dumbfound very angry when he finds out round the loss of his bride and then kills himself and fractures retentiveness her dead frame. Tiresias †A see r, comes to Creon and tells him that he of necessity to throw in Antigone or to a greater extent tribe bequeath die and he volition be in a very sorrowful position, Creon doesn’t head his terminology in enough time and ends up in despair. Eurydice †Wife of Creon; kills herself with a lemony dagger to the heart when she finds out about the death of her son Haemon.\r\nA lookout †Just informs Creon of happenings around Thebes; and helps him to find Antigone when they atomic number 18 looking for the law breaker. 2) The dramatic tack together to show how all of the rest of their family amaze horribly perished by murder or their receive hands, grade of foreshadowing what lead happen to these last two pip-squeakren. Ismene’s view of the difference amid men and women is that women are born women they aren’t meant to bump they are to be below men, and to be obedient. 3) She entrust lay with him for as big as needed no point what. â€Å"The powers of earth go forth not be as good as the powers of the Gods. She willingly to do anything for her dead brother to inter him, â€Å"do holy things criminally,” is an oxymoron beca usage holy is meant be good and righteous but doing it criminally which is a ‘conflict of values’ between good, holy and rugged, criminal. 4) There is a law set by Creon not to cloak or touch the bole of Antigone’s dead brother, but Antigone wants to bury him no matter at what cost. People instantly want things that are illegal for them to do, for example, when a divorced parent kidnaps their own electric s shake darkr from the custodial parent, law learns it’s not their child but they do anything for their child they cope. ) The Chorus is a group of Thesbian Senators; the use of emotion pulled the reader into the writing and the nasty flow with writing rhyming and gait made it easy to get more(prenominal) absorbed in the passage, feeling how large num ber listening to this play would feel. 6) He is defensive for all the trouble people had trance they were ruled by Oedipus, uses the comparison to a ship and stormy seas again, tells them they can get a secure footing now. He says that death awaits anyone that goes against him or touches that body. Their beliefs are alike because they are both out for love of something and are not letting anyone get in their way. ) The 1 Senator, suggested, â€Å"This must be something more than natural,” as to say that it could be something out of the ordinary and abstract. We see that the body is sprinkled with a dust given a ritual then buried, and that disappearing bodies was expert crazy. 8) He is describing sin and temptation when he says that it ruins cities, removes/runs men out from their families and homes, leads them on the impairment path, and sets humans on not righteous actions the gods want but tho what a human wants and their instincts. 9) He acts a modest amazed, then asks her if she will admit to it or not.\r\nHe questions her without much other communion and with the answers Antigone gives, Creon gets more angry seeing that she sees him as not high enough rank, and that she will further listen to laws made by the gods, and Creon does not want to be uniform around by a women. 10) I feel that Antigone choice was a rattlebrained religious zealotry. There were laws set by her pattern and she disobeyed them because she felt like only laws created by gods truly mattered, and that disobeying a ruler would have no effect or punishment for her with anyone but Creon. 1) Ismene wants to die with her sister, she does not want to watch her sister die then have to live without her. redden though she was timid and didn’t genuinely breath the law and touch the body or be involved in its transportation. She tells Creon she was involved and become defiant and peeved wanting what she wants. 12) They tell how the history of family continues dispir ited the whole line and one misunderstanding will ruin their heirs forever. They also say how much wrong Antigone’s family has created and all latelyr them of their children will be stir as well. The sickle murderous, of the rulers of the dead, and the wild run-in beyond control, and the frenzy of her own soul, again mow down the shoot. ” Explains of what all her family had through with(p) and that it needs to end. 13) Haemon goes from simply agreeing with his father to skeptical Ceron’s right to do this to his betrothed. then the two start to quarrel over Creon believing Haemon is following a women alternatively than him, when he is really just pitch up logical questions.\r\nHaemon is just seek to prove that it wasn’t trying to go against Creon’s law when she took her brother, but was just looking out for him because she loved her brother. 14) He changes it so that the blood of her death cannot be traced back to anyone, when she dies al one in a cave with some food provisions. withal to symbolizes that the dead should not be huffy to be buried like she seek to do with her brother, and to prove that she is, â€Å"A mazed labour to revere the dead. ” 15) We see a sad side of Antigone, were she says it will be her last time seeing dismay and she never had a wedding or a wedding song.\r\nThe chorus kind of says, ‘be happy, don’t be sad, you did not go to the code with a plague, or stabbed with a sword, you’re passing to the grave alive! ’ 16) When Creon sees Tiresias, Tiresias asks him if he will follow what he says, Creon says he eternally does, but Tiresias start to scare Creon when he starts to speak. That adds to the dramatic effect, wanting to know what Tiresias will say. He says that it was right to bury the body and that no one should be punish for it. Also that if she isn’t released there will be more deaths then just Antigone’s. 7) Initially Creon is surp rised and does not want to do what Tiresias is suggesting. It follows his character and his not cherished to be wrong and his want for power. Creon learns that the laws of the gods are more important than his own, even though he doesn’t want to usurp it. 18) Creon went to check for the voice of his son Haemon in the cave in the lead opening the cave, to release Antigone. Doing so caused the deaths of, Haemon, Polynices, and Antigone. If Creon had saved Antigone first it would have most likely saved Haemon when he saw his betrothed.\r\nDoing what Creon did proves how much his pride comes before anyone else. 19) Antigone †Hung herself with linen rope in the grave where she was left to die. Haemon †Stabbed himself through the chest with a sword after(prenominal) seeing Antigone’s dead body and holding her in his arms. Eurydice †Dead at the altar of Creon’s house, slain dead with a kinky edged dagger to her hear with her own hands. Polynices â₠¬ Found dead at the extremum of a hill, on the hillside with wild dogs all around him taking their shares. 20) Creon learns that by denounce others he condemned his family and they ll tragically saw their mountain because he couldn’t let Antigone biting her brother, that many more people nearly to Creon died. 21) Antigone is a ‘ sad Figure’ because she dies in the story and makes the audience feel bad for her because she was punished severely for trying to do right by her brother and bury him. While King Creon is the true ‘Tragic Hero’ because he sees his wrong after pride and power set him off course and down the wrong path, and after he saw the light, it was too late to fix what had already begun, and many more people died when no one had to cause or die at all.\r\n'