Which tragic element creates pity and fear in the audience?
allusion
What tone does the allusion to Niobe reveal a sarcastic C melancholy D jealous?
Melancholy tone does the allusion to Niobe reveal.
Which mood does the allusion to Niobe create?
gloomy
What is Acheron Antigone?
Acheron, the rivers in the underworld where souls travel upon their death, is referenced by Antigone when she alludes to her impending journey to death upon condemnation to the cave. Antigone references meeting both when speaking of the death march she will soon make to the underworld.
How are Niobe and Antigone similar?
According to Patricia Lines in the Humanitas Journal, Antigone and Niobe are primarily similar in terms of hubris. In the play Antigone, Lines notes that Antigone feels isolated from her sister and her fiancé and she compares herself to Niobe in reference to having no one to mourn her as she prepares to die.
Who does Antigone compare herself to?
Niobe
What does Antigone want to happen to Creon if she was not wrong for burying her brother?
Because Eteocles was the legitimate heir and Polynices the aggressor, the king, Creon, has decided to punish the corpse of Polynices by denying it burial. Antigone announces her intention to defy the order of the king and bury her brother, in accordance with divine law (1-38).
What are the guard’s feelings about returning to speak to Creon?
In lines 437-450 (p. 322), what are the guard’s feelings about returning to speak to Creon? The guard’s feelings about returning to speak to Creon are:______________________________________________.
What are Creon’s opinions about what a good leader should do?
This shows that Creon feels a good leader should be powerful and set laws in order to be respected. Creon feels that if someone dishonors the city in which he rules that they must be punished, and if he does not punish those who dishonor or disobey him people will take him for granted and think he is a weak king.
What is the meaning of the metaphors Creon uses in lines 538 542?
Explanation: The metaphor that Creon uses means that he is the captain of the country, the sovereign who commands and demands and everything is under his control, for that reason, he can do whatever he wants and Antigone has to obey.
Why is Antigone happy to die?
Antigone’s pride is how she displays her loyalty to her brother and the gods this is the reason for her demise. She is so proud in her beliefs that she is willing to die for them, and she does. Her lack of humility when confronting Creon leads to her tragic end.
Why is Antigone The Bride of Death?
Through his struggle to keep Antigone in the land of the living, the messenger in the play says, “Side by side they lie, and both are dead, / Not in this world but in the world below / He wins his bride” (Sophocles, 51). Thus, the two lovers are cut tragically from the joy of love as they die embracing each other.
Why did Creon change his mind?
In your opinion, what causes Creon to change his mind? Creon changes his mind when Teiresias tells him of the omen at Polyneices’ body, and the chorales advises him to build a tomb and release Antigone.
Why does Creon decide not to bury Polyneices?
Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. Creon also declared that Polyneices would not receive a proper burial because he committed treason against his own city.
How does haemon’s tone attitude change toward Creon?
6. How has Haemon’s tone/attitude toward Creon changed from the beginning to end of scene 3? At the beginning, he was respectful and trying to flatter Creon. At the end he is desperate and accuses Creon of being too stubborn and of offending the gods.
How will Antigone be killed?
Antigone, despairing of her fate, commits suicide by hanging just before Creon changes his mind and orders her to be released. John Newell, J.D. In the play, Antigone is sentenced to death by her uncle, King Creon, for the crime of burying her brother, Polynices.