Antigone Flashcards
haemon and Antigones relationship
“She won’t die alone, there’ll be two
deaths, not one” (Haemon)
death - Antigone
“We shall all be guests to the sad-faced
queen Persephone” (Antigone)
“The act of death will be a glory”
(Antigone)
antigone dying young
“I shall die unmarred, all those pleasures
denied me” (Antigone)
Antigone being proud and brave about her crime
“Yes, I’m guilty. I don’t pretend otherwise”
“What more do you want, kill me and have
it done with it” (Antigone)
chorus about how great zeus is
“For Zeus is all powerful, no man can
match him” (Chorus)
civil obedience and arrogance - creon
“I am the law” (Creon)
arrogance and the law of the gods - Antigone
“No man’s arrogance or power can make
me disobey them” (Antigone)
“Its your law, not the law of god”
(Antigone)
“The laws that you enact cannot overturn
ancient moralities” (Antigone)
“What moral law have I broken?”
(Antigone)
feminism and oppression - ismene to antigone
“Physically weaker and barred from all
political power” (Ismene)
“How can we fight against the
institutionalised strength of the male sex?”
(Ismene)
“State power commands and I must do
what i’m told” (Ismene)
civil obedience and the state - creon
“Ordinary citizens must necessarily obey
those in authority over them” (Creon)
creon not liking a woman challenging him
“Not by a conspiracy of women” (Creon)
feminism
“Women must learn to obey”
law of mortals and gods - Antigone to creon
“You are merely a man, a mortal”
(Antigone to Creon)
feminism - creon about Antigone challenging him
“Me playing the woman while she plays
the king” (Creon)
creon being arrogant to Antigone
“Are you threatening me?” (Creon)
do you realise the man you are talking to. I am the king.
creon being stubborn
“How am I wrong?” (Creon)
creon about his son marrying a dominant woman
“God help the lovesick fool who marries a
dominating woman” Creon
creons temper
“How dare you! Shut you mouth’s all of
you, before I lose my temper!” (Creon)
Haemon to his dad about pride
“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.”
chorus about grief and wisdom
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
chorus on how great man is
Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none
More wonderful than man;
Antigone before her death
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
family and oppression - chorus about Antigone like her dad
Like father, like daughter, passionate, wild . . . she hasn’t learned to bend before adversity.
fate and suffering - Antigone to ismene
The blood of Oedipus. And suffering, which was his destiny, is our punishment too.
Creon’s decree
No one is to bury him, or mourn for him. His body is to be left in the open, uncovered, a stinking feast for the scavengers.
