Episode 4 Flashcards
The Kommos here
a dirge/ lament between the chorus and an actor
Antigone mourns
setting out on my last road, last light of day I will ever see.
denied my part in the wedding songs
Chorus on the nature of her burial
Not crowned with glory or with a dirge (what she wanted)
a law to yourself
you go to the halls of Death alive
Who does Antigone compare herself to
think of Niobe, what a living death she died (interesting because she lost all her children, Antigone wont ever have children, fate of the childless)
Chorus are not happy with the comparison to Niobe
she was a god. its a great thing for a dying girl to hear she shares a destiny equal to the gods (reproves Antigone for making such a comparison, condescending)
Antigone now feels completely alone now that she has been insulted by the chorus
why must you abuse me to my face
unmourned by friends
- always a stranger “metoikos” x2, an alien in the land of the living and the dead.
Chorus think that Antigone
went too far
What do they wonder about Antigone’s misfortune
do you pay for your father’s terrible ordeal
Antigone on family
the worst pain, the worst anguish, raking up the grief for father
I go to share my parents home now, cursed, unwed
I am a stranger
In a way blames Polynices (but not resentfully)
dear brother, your marriage murders mine (Polynices marriage to daughter of Adrastus of Argos
Your dying drags me down to Death alive (maybe an unnatural connection to him, Eteocles is not mentioned)
Chorus on why Antigone has been destroyed
attacks on power do not go unchecked by the man who wields power
your passion has destroyed you
Anigonesums up her situation
No one to weep for me my friends
No wedding song
I am agony!
Creon’s opinion on the way in which Antigone is going to die
wall her up in the tomb
let her choose death or a buried life
my hands are clean
What does Creon say Antigone will lose
she will be stripped of her stranger’s rights “metoikos” resident alien, not a full citizen, she has forfeited her citizenship by her action, he will deprive her of this.
Antigone’s address to her tomb
O tomb, my bridal bed - my house, my prison
Antigone’s one hope
My one hope: my arrival may be dear to my family
Who would Antigone not have done this for, her own family
I would not have done this for a husband or child
There may have been another husband or child, but never a son (but burying would never solve this)
now I am denied all joy of marriage and raising children
Wonders if she has betrayed the gods, a right approach to the gods
What law of the mighty god have I transgressed
If this is the pleasure of the gods then when I suffer I will know that I was wrong
IF these men are wrong let them suffer nothing worse than what I have suffered.
Her goodbye
Thebes, city of all my fathers
gods, the first gods of the race (now she emphasises that she is a part of them all)
I suffer for my reverence for the gods!
