All Antigone

Creon

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sentry

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Antigone

But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God.

Ismene

What do I care for life when you are dead?

Ismene

But now I know what you meant; and I'm here to join you.

Antigone

Can anyone living, as I live, with evil all about me, think Death less than a friend?

Sentry

I'd like nothing better than bringing him the man!

Antigone

It is my nature to join in love, not hate.

Chorus

You have made your choice, Your death is the doing of your conscious hand.

Haemon

No marriage means more to me than your continuing wisdom.

Haemon

But if I am young, and right, What does my age matter?

Creon

If dirges and planned lamentations could put off death, Man would be singing forever.

Death is the price-- you're right. But all to often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.

Creon

He is my brother and-- deny it as you will-- your brother too. No one will ever convict me for a traitor.

Antigone

Exactly when did you last see the gods celebrating traitors? Inconceivable!

Creon

First, myself, I've got to tell you, I didn't do it, didn't see who did-- be fair, don't take it out on me.

Sentry

Man, the master, ingenuous beyond all measure, past all dreams, the skills within his grasp-- he forges on, now to destruction, now again to greatness!

Chorus

You, with your eyes fixed on the ground-- speak up. Do you deny you did this?

Creon

I, for one, I'll beg the dead to forgive me-- I'm forced, I have no choice-- I must obey the ones who stand in power.

Ismene

Dear god, shout it from the rooftops. I'll hate you all the more for silence-- tell the world!"

Antigone

My countrymen, the ship of state is safe. The gods who rocked her, after a long, merciless pounding in the storm, have righted her once more.

Creon

No, from the first there were certain citizens who could hardly stand the spirit of my regime... these are the instigators, I'm convinced-- they've perverted my own guard, bribed them to do their work.

Creon

It wasn't Zeus, not in the least, who made this proclamation-- not to me. Nor did that Justice, dwelling with the gods beneath the earth, ordain such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods.

Antigone

And it is you-- your high resolve that sets this plague on Thebes... And so the gods are deaf to our prayers, they spurn the offerings in our hands, the flame of holy flesh.

Tiresias

No, reverend old Tiresias, all men fall, it's only human, but the wisest fall obscenely when they glorify obscene advice with rhetoric-- all for their own gain.

Creon

Wisdom is by far the greatest part of joy, the reverence towards the gods must be safeguarded.

Chorus

Just think my reverence brands me for irreverence.

Antigone

Fortune lifts and fortune fells the lucky and unlucky every day.

Messenger

Stubbornness brands you for stupidity, pride is a crime.

Tiresias

What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island - you and you alone.

Haemon

Then she will die, but her death will kill another.

Haemon

No, it's no disgrace for a wise man, to learn too many things and not be rigid.

Haemon

My king, there's nothing you can swear you'll never do, second thoughts make liars of us all.

Sentry

Of it's terrible when the one who does all the judging, judges things all wrong.

Sentry

Do as you like, dishonor the laws the gods hold in honor.

Antigone

Sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.

Eurydice

Antigone

daughter of Oedipus who buries Polynices

Creon

Uncle of Oedipus ruler of Thebes protagonist

Ismene

sister of Antigone doesn't bury Polynices but is ready to take the fall with her sister

Haemon

son of Creon and fiancé of Antigone pleads for Antigone ends up stabbing out his heart after Antigone is dead

Tiresias

the seerer says that pride is a crime and that two will die

Eurydice

wife of Creon and killed herself after hearing news of sons death

Polynices

traitor who didn't get buried

Eteocles

loyal soldier who did get buried

Sentry

brought the news of the bury of the body also was the one to bring Antigone in

Megareus

the other son of Eurydice and Creon who died in battle

Hubris

pride

Skene

rectangular building provides backdrop

Parados

two broad aisles also the entrance

Creon

Don't even mention her- she no longer exists

Creon

Absolutely: there are other fields from him to plow

Creon

I'm not about to prove myself a liar not to my people, no, I'm going to kill her!

Haemon

Then she will die... but her death will kill another

Haemon

What threat? Combating tour empty, mindless judgements with a word?

Haemon

no no she wil bever dies beside me don't delude yourself. And you will never see me, never set eyes in my face again. Rage your heart our, rage with friends who can stand in sight of you

Chorus:

once the gods have rocked a house to its foundation the ruin will never cease

Leader

No more prayers now. For mortal men there is no escape from the doom we must endure

Messenger

Creon shows the world that of all the ills afflicting men the worst is lack of judgement

Catharsis

purging of emotions

Cothurni

long flowing robe

Hamartia

era of judgement

Chiton

long woolen tunic in ancient Greece

Aristotle Unities

plot making character delineation thought language speech song and spectacle

Proskenian

platform separating the orchestra and chorus

Thespis

first man to do theatre

Theatron

the seeing place

Properties

props

Dionysus

god of wine

Orchestra

flat area for chorus

Dramatic Irony

audience is aware of critical information of which the characters are not aware

polynices

traitor son of Oedipus

Eteocles

hero son of Oedipus

megaris

son of creon that died in civil war

Antigone

glory, arrogance, "my reverence only brands me for irrverance" "My death will be a glory", passionate, honoring the gods, unapologetic,

Ismene

stereotypical, scared, feminine, scared for Antigone, "we're only women", tries to help Antigone but Antigone rejects her

Creon

with us or against us, black and white, the kings are always right, sounds like Oedipus, arrogant, power of the state and the king, tyrannical

Haemon

pragmatic, rhetoric (art of persuasion), tries to convince his father not to kill Antigone, at first is subservient, argues to save her, tells father that he hears things that the people disagree, don't be so single minded to think that you are right and the world is wrong, this is bigger than you, logical, voice of reason,

Tiresias

future, prophecy that a child of his will die, denied the gods two bodies,

Sentry

someone buried the body, you don't like what I'm saying but don't kill me, he catches Antigone, sad because this is wrong,

Messenger

described that someone died, describes violent action, tells the whole story of Haemon, tells how Eurydice killed herself

Leader/Chorus

"we", gods, preachy, elevated language, song like

Eurydice

curses Creon, "sorrow and I are hardly strangers..." I just buried a son,

I for one, I'll beg the dead to forgive me, I'm forced, I have no choice, I must obey the ones in power,

Ismene (weakness, timidity)

look the king of the realm is coming (question)

chorus (questions)

order in which Sophocles wrote the plays

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

chronology

Oedipus the king, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles plays were a commentary on

society

in Antigone, Sophocles was mocking

totalitarian government

Antigone is considered a

social commentary

when Sophocles wrote the play, Greece

had an overpowering government

Antigone doesn't

win in the end

Oedipus at Colonus is written when

Sophocles is an old man

ancient Greece was not only prejudiced against women, but also

the elderly

what inspires Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles is an old statesman and they are trying to kick him out

what does Polynices attack Eteocles with

seven armies of Argos

The doom reserved for enemies marches on the ones we love the most

Antigone

He's to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for birds that scan the field and feast to their heart's content

Antigone

No one will ever convict me for a traitor

Antigone

Remember we are women, we're not born to contend with men

Ismene

Do as you like, dishonor the laws the gods hold in honor

Antigone