Characters

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Characters
Figurative Lang.
Tragedy
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Blind prophet who warns Creon to release Antigone
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Teiresias
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Sister of Antigone who refuses to help, then
wishes to die with her sister
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Ismene
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Reports the deaths of Antigone, Haimon, and
Eurydice
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Messenger
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Father of Antigone, gouges his eyes out after
learning of his complicated family history
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Oedipus
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Mother and Grandmother of Antigone, hangs herself
(foreshadow of her daughters future?)
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Jocasta
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He the wild eagle screamingInsults above our
land,His wings their shields of snow,His crest
their marshalled helms.
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Extended Metaphor
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Rose like a dragon behind him, shouting war!
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Simile
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The famished spears came onward in the night
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Personification
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Our Ship of State, which recent storms have
threatened to destroy has come safely to harbor
at last, guided by the merciful wisdom of Heaven.
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Extended Metaphor
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I am aware, of course, that no Ruler can expect
complete loyalty from his subjects until he has
been tested in office
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Foreshadowing
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The fate that cannot be avoided
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Nemesis
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A purging of the emotions of pity and fear, the
experience of the audience during a tragedy
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Catharsis
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Overweening pride, excessive arrogance, the most
common tragic flaw
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Hubris
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Aristotles term for tragic flaw
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Hamartia
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Reversal of fortune
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Peripeteia
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There are places enough for him to push his
plow. I want no wicked women for my sons!
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Creon

• Extra 100
• How does this reveal Creons opinion of Antigone?

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Oh Oedipus, father and brother! Your marriage
strikes from the grave to murder mine.
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Antigone

• Extra 200
• To what is Antigone referring? How does she
  believe this has impacted her fate?

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These are no trifles! Think all men make
mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his
course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only
crime is pride.
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Teiresias

• Extra 100
• Explain this statement.

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I fainted, there at the temple with all my
maidens about me. But speak again whatever it
is, I can bear it Grief and I are no strangers.
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Eurydice

• Extra 200
• What does the Messenger tell Eurydice?

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Lead me away. I have been rash and foolish. I
have killed my son and my wife. I look for
comfort my comfort lies here dead.
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Creon

• Guilty! ?

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Songs of the chorus addressing an abstract theme
of the play, or focusing upon the central theme
of the play
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Odes
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Purpose is to present the action or dialogue
within the play
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Episodes/Scenes
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Helped the audience identify the sex, age, and
social rank of the characters
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Greek Masks

• Extra 200
• Give two more reasons why masks were used in
  Greek drama

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A prayer to the gods, inserted in the play
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Paean
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Antigone is compared to this in the play, as she
weeps over her dead brother
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A mother bird