Antigone Flashcards
1
Q
- Position on Power: Creon sex quote
A
There are other fields to plough
2
Q
- Position on Power: Creon to Ismene
A
You crawling viper
3
Q
- Position of Power: Creon to Sentry
A
“Proud thoughts do not sit well upon subordinates”
4
Q
- Position of Power: Creon to chorus
A
“don’t be an old fool old you may be”
5
Q
- Burial and Religion: Most important quote
A
“I did not think your edicts strong enough to overrule the unwritten, unalterable laws of god and heaven, you being only a man”
6
Q
- Burial and Religion: Quote about Ismene
A
“Live and defy the holiest laws of heaven”
7
Q
- Burial and Religion: Antigone and duty
A
“I know my duty, where my true duty lies”
8
Q
- Creon and state
A
He whom the state appoints must be obeyed. to the smallest matter, be it right or wrong
9
Q
- Burial and Reiligon: Antigone and happy
A
I will bury my brother, and if i die for it what happiness!
10
Q
- Teiresias
A
“only a fool is governed by self will”
11
Q
- fatal flaw
A
hamartia
12
Q
- pride in greek
A
hubris
