Antigone Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is the conflict if the story?
Individual rights vs. State
Moral Law vs. Human Law
What is the setting of the story?
The city of Thebes, the morning after a war, way back in B.C.
Who are the major characters in Antigone?
Antigone, Creon, Ismene, and Haemon
Who is Antigone?
The protagonist and daughter if Oedipus
Who is Creon?
The king of Thebes and Antigone’s uncle
Who is Ismene?
Antigone’s sister
Who is Haemon?
Creon’s sin and Antigone’s fiancé
What is foil?
A character who serves as a contrast to another character
What is a Metaphor?
Makes comparisons between two things that have something in common, doesn’t use like or as, can use is
What is a Simile?
Compares two things that are actually unlike but have something in common, uses like or as
What is Verbal Irony?
When a speaker says one thing but means another
What is Dramatic Irony?
The contrast between what a character knows and what the reader or audience knows
What is Situational Irony?
When a character or the reader expects one thing to happen but something entirely different happens
What is Alliteration?
Repetition of the same or similar constant sounds in words close together
Who is Eteocles?
Antigone’s brother and died in honor he killed his brother Polyneices for kingdom
Polyneices
Antigone’s brother shunned killed his brother for kingdom
Antigone feels how about Polyneices?
She wants to bury her brother
Problem in Prologue ?
Man vs. Man fight between the sisters
Man vs. Society Creons rule not to touch the body
Metaphors in Prologue?
But his body must lie in the field, a sweet treasure for carrion birds to as they search for food
What’s happening in the Parodos?
It’s describing the battle the brothers had. Polyneices used Athens army
Ismene opinion on burying Polyneices.
Antigone’s sister and doesn’t want to bury her brother because it’s dangerous (argument)
