| What is Haemon’s initial response when his father ask how he feels about the king’s decision to execute Antigone? | He says, “No marriage means more to me that your (Creon’s) continuing wisdom” (Scene 3 14). |
| What does Creon say the men pray for? | “Sons who are attentive and dutiful” (Scene 3 14) and who hate their “father’s enemies” (Scene 3 15) |
| Why is Creon intent on harshly punishing, even family members, all those who break the law? | He wants to look like a strong ruler who puts Thebes first above friends and family. |
| What does Haemon claim is God’s crowning gift to man? | Reason. |
| What does Haemon tell King Creon about the people of Thebes’ alliance to him? | They are talking behind Creon’s back about Antifone being right to follow the gods’ laws. |
| Whose point, King Creon’s or Haemon’s, does the Choragos support? | Both. |
| How does the city feel about Antigone’s crime? | They think she should be found innocent. |
| While Creon is ranting at his son, what does the king threaten to do? | Kill Antigone right there in front of Haemon. |
| Describe Creon’s death sentence for Antigone. | She shall be locked in a vault and slowly starved to death. |
| According to Ode 3, what is it that “even the pure immortals cannot escape”? | Love. |
| diviners | Those who an predict the future; fortune tellers |
| deference | To subject to the authority or control of another |
| subordinate | Yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgement of another. |
| astray | Straying to or into wrong or evil ways |
| brawl | A noisy quarrel or fight |
| perverse | Obstinately persisting in an error; wrongly self-willed or stubborn |
| piety | Righteousness by virtue or being pious |
| vigil | A watch kept during normal sleeping hours |
| vile | Deserving or contempt or scorn |
| slacken | To make or become less tense, taut, or firm; loosen |
Antigone Study Guide: Scene 3 Ode 3
February 16, 2020