SAC#2 quotes

Question 1

You’ll never bury that body in the grave

Answer 1

Creon; blindness/sight

Question 2

But that man the city places in authority must be obeyed, large and small, right and wrong

Answer 2

Creon; blindness/sight

Question 3

I did not think that your decree was of such weight that they could countermand the laws unfailing and unwritten of the gods, and you a mortal only and a man

Answer 3

Antigone; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 4

Do as you like, dishonour the laws the gods hold in honour

Answer 4

Antigone; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 5

Whoever places his friend about the good of his country, he is nothing. I have no use for him

Answer 5

Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 6

she will be stripped of her rights, her stranger’s rights

Answer 6

Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 7

Oh it is hard to give in! But it is worse to risk everything for stubborn pride

Answer 7

Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 8

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full

Answer 8

Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

Question 9

Did you break the king’s laws, some mad act of defiance

Answer 9

Chorus; man made law vs natural law

Question 10

Gall to break this law

Answer 10

Creon; man made law vs natural law

Question 11

The state is the king!

Answer 11

Creon; man made law vs natural law

Question 12

The city is the king’s - that’s the law

Answer 12

Creon; man made law vs natural law

Question 12

But whoever places his loyalty to the state…I’ll prize that man in death as well as life

Answer 12

Creon; man made law vs natural law

Question 13

What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother a decent burial?

Answer 13

Antigone; man made law vs natural law

Question 14

Protect your rights? When you trample down the honour of the gods?

Answer 14

Haemon; man made law vs natural law

Question 14

Lucky tyrants! Prerequisites of power!

Answer 14

Antigone; power and tyranny

Question 15

He is my brother…no one will convict me ever convict me for a traitor

Answer 15

Antigone; Political loyalty/filial loyalty

Question 15

What a splendid king you’d make of a desert island, you and you alone

Answer 15

Haemon; power and tyranny

Question 15

And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain

Answer 15

Tiresias; power and tyranny

Question 16

I don’t even exist, I am no one, Nothing.

Answer 16

Creon; power and tyranny

Question 17

Let death come quickly and be kind to me

Answer 17

Creon; power and tyranny

Question 18

How many griefs our father Oeidipus handed down!

Answer 18

Antigone; fate and free will

Question 18

She is the man if this victory goes to her

Answer 18

Creon; gender

Question 18

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full

Answer 18

Chorus; power and tyranny

Question 19

The ruin will never cease, cresting on and on from one generation on through the race - like a great mounting tide driven on by savage gales

Answer 19

Chorus; fate and free will

Question 20

While I'm alive, no woman is going to lord it over me

Answer 20

Creon; gender

Question 21

Fool, adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman

Answer 21

Creon; gender

Question 22

Never be rated inferior to woman

Answer 22

Creon; gender

Question 22

We are women, we are not born to contend with men

Answer 22

Ismene; gender

Question 23

We're underlings ruled by much stronger hands

Answer 23

Ismene; gender

Question 24

I would be prepared to die, if only I could slit my mothers throat!

Answer 24

Electra; gender

Question 25

I pray he pays in full for it

Answer 25

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 26

Grant us victory, if what we ask for is just

Answer 26

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 27

You gods, and all seeing justice, you have come at last!

Answer 27

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 28

Punish my father's murders, their blood for his

Answer 28

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 29

Now they shall rule in justice...now that they have overthrown the enemies of justice

Answer 29

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 30

"[the] gods deals out justice sooner or later. Monstrous is your suffering, but what you did to your husband, heartless woman, gave the gods cause for anger

Answer 30

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 31

But you have paid justly for taking their father's life

Answer 31

Electra; justice and revenge

Question 32

I have committed the most terrible of acts

Answer 32

Electra; repentance and atonement

Question 33

Mother killer

Answer 33

Orestes; repentance and atonement

Question 34

I'm sorry for what I have devised! I let my anger against my husband drive me too far!

Answer 34

Clytemnestra; repentance and atonement