Antigone Tragic Character/Women

Question 1

Creon’s Hubris

Answer 1

Antigone: “your decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override heaven.”

Question 2

Antigone’s Hubris

Answer 2

Ismene: “you wouldst bury him, when it is forbidden to Thebes?”

Question 3

Creon’s Ate

Answer 3

Messenger: “Haemon has perished, his blood shed by no stranger . . . by his own (hand), in wrath with his father.”

Question 4

Antigone’s Ate

Answer 4

Antigone: What law of Heaven have I transgressed?”.

Antigone is led away by guards

Question 5

Creon’s Nemesis

Answer 5

Creon: “I have learned the bitter lesson.”
Creon: “Is there none to strike me to the heart with the two-edged sword?”

Question 6

Women not as strong as men

Answer 6

Ismene: “Remember, we were born women, and we are ruled of the stronger.”

Question 7

Women must obey

Answer 7

Creon: “What living man has committed this?”

Question 8

Women can’t lead

Answer 8

“It is better to fall from power (than) to be called weaker than a woman.”