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Allusion

“But now for Victory!” - chorus

“He was one of those flying African children” -susan

Metaphor

life to pain: “There’s nothing, no pain-our lives are pain” - Antigone

Fate as horse: “the bridle of fate stampeding him with pain” - Chorus

Thebes to dragon: “Dragon none can master—Thebes—” - Chorus

Symbolism (birds)

"He’s to be left […] for birds that scan the field and feast to their hearts content” - Antigone

Theme: Gender

“Remember we are women, we’re not born to contend with men” - Ismene

“Proud, rebellious horses” - Creon

“Don’t flatter me with Father — you women’s slave!” - Creon

“Have you no sense? Poor misguided men” - Jocasta

“I don’t make roses anymore, and you have pissed your last in this house.” - Lena

Extended metaphor (ship as state)

“My countrymen, the ship of state is safe” - Creon

“Our country is our safety. Only while she voyages true on course can we establish friendships, truer than blood itself.” - Creon

“Now again, good helmsman, steer us through the storm!” - Chorus

Theme: Corruption of power/money

“Death is the price—you’re right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.” - Creon

“Money, nothing worse in our lives” - Creon

“Foul is fair, fair is foul” (Chiasmus) - Chorus

“Anarchy—show me a greater crime in all the Earth!” - Creon

“He is the plague, the heart of our corruption” - Oedipus

“I am abomination—heart and soul!” - Oedipus

“Pride breeds the tyrant” - Chorus

Theme: Responsibility, self sacrifice, desiny

“and if i am to die before my time i consider that a gain” - Antigone

“Give me glory! What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother a decent burial?” - Antigone

“It’s mine alone, my destiny—I am Oedipus!”

Theme: love/family

“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone”

Theme: Eyes, blindness, prophecy

“Our city—look around you, see with your own eyes—” - Priest

“Blind, lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!” - Oedipus

“And if you find I’ve lied from this day onward call this prophet blind.” - Tiresias

“Why scan the birds that scream above our heads?” - Oedipus

Flight/metaphor

Robert smith “take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings”

“as fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar”

“A little bird’ll be here in the morning”

Color

“All they could see beneath her face was the bright orange she was peeling”

Metaphor

“the calculated violence of a shark grew in her”

“he is my home in this world”

“and he did not limp”

“bent over her like two divi-divi trees

Symbolism

“white peacock”

“the heart fell away from it’s chest as easily as a yolk slips out of its shell”

“money is freedom” - milkman

“each thought it was the way freedom smelled”

“i don’t approve of getting up so fast and jumping straight into water”

naming

“names that bore witness”