<p> Name:______</p><p>Antigone Guided Reading Prologue and Entry Ode (Parodos)</p><p>1. Where is the setting?</p><p>2. How are Antigone and Ismene related? </p><p>3. Who are the two brothers mentioned and how and why are they killed? </p><p>4. What is King Creon's decree (ruling)?</p><p>5. What does Antigone plan to do? Why is this task so important to her and what consequences will she face?</p><p>6. What is Ismene's decision regarding Creon's decree? </p><p>7. What is Ismene's view of the relationship between men and women?</p><p>8. What word does Ismene use to describe Antigone? </p><p>9. What conflict in Greek values does Antigone's desire to bury her brother represent? </p><p>1 Name:______</p><p>10. How are Ismene and Antigone similar and different?</p><p>11. What general purpose does the chorus play in Greek tragedy?</p><p>12. What does the Chorus compare Polyneices to in the Parodos?</p><p>13. What side did the Chorus favor in the war?</p><p>14. What does the Chorus compare Thebes to? </p><p>Scene 1 and Ode 1 15. Why has Creon called the Chorus together? What does he share with them? </p><p>16. What crime has Polyneices committed in Creon's opinion? </p><p>17. Why does Creon order Eteocles be buried with honors and Polyneices be left to rot on field?</p><p>18. How does he justify this? </p><p>2 Name:______</p><p>19. What is the chorus' attitude toward Creon's decree? </p><p>20. What news does the sentry bring to Creon? </p><p>21. How does Creon believe the act of burying Polyneices was carried out? </p><p>22. What does Creon demand that the sentry do? </p><p>23. According to Ode 1 - what is the most wonderful of all the world's wonders? </p><p>24. What wind has man not secured himself against? </p><p>25. List man's accomplishments according to Ode 1. </p><p>Scene 2 and Ode 2 26. Who has the sentry captured and brought to Creon? </p><p>3 Name:______</p><p>27. How did the guards happen to catch Antigone?</p><p>28. How did she react to being captured? </p><p>29. What reason does she give for defying Creon's decree? </p><p>30. What is the Chorus' opinion of her now? </p><p>31. Who else does Creon have arrested in connection with the crime of burying Polyneices?</p><p>32. Why is Antigone angry with Ismene? </p><p>33. Besides being Antigone's uncle - how else is she related to Creon? </p><p>34. What is to be Antigone's punishment for burying her brother and honoring the gods? </p><p>35. What is Creon's opinion of women? </p><p>36. According to Ode 2, who is the fortunate man? </p><p>4 Name:______</p><p>37. According to Ode 2, who is the god who must not be made angry? </p><p>Scene 3 and Ode 3 38. When Haemon arrives, what is the first question that Creon asks him?</p><p>39. What is the reason Creon gives when he claims that it is necessary for him to condemn Antigone? What further points does Creon make to his son? </p><p>40. What is the point that Haemon is attempting to make to Creon by the analogies of the tree and the ship? </p><p>41. By refusing to listen to his son, what does Creon reveal about himself? </p><p>42. What threats does Haemon make to his father? </p><p>43. Does gender bias (against women) and age bias (against youth) affect Creon's decision to punish Antigone? Does Haemon feel the same way about women that his father does? </p><p>44. How does the city feel about Antigone's crime? </p><p>45. What is Creon's death sentence for Antigone? How is this different from what he originally said he would do? </p><p>5 Name:______</p><p>46. What is the focus of the third ode? </p><p>Scene 4 and Ode 4 47. What does the chorus suggest brought on Antigone's trouble? </p><p>48. What does Antigone blame for her terrible misfortune? </p><p>Scene 5, Paean and Exodos 49. What omen causes Tiresias to approach Creon? </p><p>50. What happened when the blind prophet began "the rites of burnt-offering at the altar?</p><p>51. What opinion does Tiresias express to Creon? </p><p>52. How does Creon react to his advice? </p><p>53. What warnings does Tiresias give to Creon if he refuses to heed the prophesies? </p><p>54. What is the effect of Tiresias' warnings to Creon? </p><p>55. What advice does the chorus give to King Creon once Tiresias leaves? </p><p>56. How does he react to this advice? What does he do as a result? </p><p>6 Name:______</p><p>57. Who does the messenger claim is a walking "dead man"? </p><p>58. How has Tiresias' prophecy that Creon would pay the gods "flesh of [his] own flesh" come true? </p><p>59. Who is Eurydice? </p><p>60. What were Creon and the messenger doing when they prayed to Hecate and Pluto? </p><p>61. Describe what Creon saw when he looked through the crevice into Antigone's tomb.</p><p>62. What did Haemon do upon seeing his father? </p><p>63. What happened after the messenger relayed the news about Haemon and Antigone to Eurydice? </p><p>64. How Eurydice's suicide fulfill Tiresias' prophecy and what were her final words? </p><p>65. What dramatic change takes place in Creon's character as a result of the tragedies? </p><p>66. Explain the final words and judgment of the chorus (hubris and the gods).</p><p>7</p>