Honors E nglish Ten Antigone Questions

1. How do you feel about Antigone's attitude toward her brothers and toward her sister Ismene? 2. In their first scene together, Antigone and Ismene are foils, characters who have contrasting or opposite qualities. How would you characterize each sister? Does Sophocles seem to side with one sister over the other? Do you? Explain. 3. We haven't met Creon yet. What reasons do you think he would have given for his decree to leave Polyneices' body unburied? 4. In verbal irony, what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Where does Antigone use verbal irony in her scenes with Ismene? How does this make you feel about Antigone? 5. In the Parodos, Polyneices is compared to an animal. What animal is it, and how does this metaphor make you feel about Polyneices? 6. At the end of the Parodos, what hopes for the future does the Chorus express? Do you think these expectations will be fulfilled? Why, or why not? 7. What motivates Antigone to break Creon's law? What motivates Ismene to respect it? 8. Briefly discuss the role the chorus plays in Greek Theatre.