What is Antigone’s attitude as she is going to her death? | She welcomes it |
What is the chorus’ view of Antigone’s death? | They are indifferent, though they blame her and are bitter. |
To whom does Antigone compare her death? | Niobe, Tantalo’s daughter. |
Whom does Antigone blame? | Her father, Oedipus |
How does the chorus argue against her? | They tell her that it was her own fault. |
Who is Antigone looking forward to seeing in death? | Polyneices, Oedipus, Jocasta. |
What curse does she place on Creon? | Death |
What does Antigone ask the gods to remember? | What things she suffers, that she has always obeyed their will. |
To what does Antigone compare Creon’s voice? | Death |
What signs has Teiresias given Creon? | Birds dying, fires going rampant. |
According to Teiresias, what has brought the new calamity upon them? | Creon’s hubris. |
What does Creon assume is Teiresias’ motive? | Money |
What punishment does Teiresias give Creon? | Death |
Why does he agree to bury Polyneices and free Antigone? | He wants to avoid punishment. |
What gods do the chorus call on? | Dionysus, Semele, Eleusis. |
What does the messenger say about the state of human fortune? | No man can predict it. |
What news the messenger bring? | Haimon’s death |
Who is Eurydice? | Creon’s wife and haimon’s mother. |
What does Creon find when he reaches Antigone’s cave? | Her hanging body, and haimon wrapped around it. |
How does haimon react to seeing his father? | He spits in his face and attempts to kill him. He ends up committing suicide. |
What happens to Eurydice? | She kills herself, blaming Creon. |
What happened to Creon’s other son, Megareus? | He is also dead. |
Antigone- scene 4-exodus
February 14, 2020