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Antigone Jeopardy

Antigone Jeopardy. FINAL JEOPARDY. This is the tragic hero of Antigone and the reason behind it. This is the reason Creon excuses Antigone from stoning and instead locks her in a stone cave. What is to lessen his responsibility and guilt for her death?.

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Antigone Jeopardy

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  1. Antigone Jeopardy

  2. FINAL JEOPARDY This is the tragic hero of Antigone and the reason behind it.

  3. This is the reason Creon excuses Antigone from stoning and instead locks her in a stone cave. What is to lessen his responsibility and guilt for her death?

  4. Creon forbid the burial of Polyneices for this reason. What is Polyneices tried to invade and overthrow Thebes fighting against his own brother?

  5. This is the reason that Antigone is cursed. What is her father, Oedipus, killed his own father and married his mother?

  6. Haimon uses these metaphors to convince his father to spare Antigone. What are a tree in a flood and a sail on a ship?

  7. These are two main topics the play addresses. (Sophocles wrote to opine on these.) What are pride and obedience to the laws of the gods?

  8. Creon makes these points to Haimon in defense of killing Antigone. What are: a son should obey his father, a leader can’t appear to be weak, citizens must obey every law – great and small, order makes for quality of life, a woman must not fell a leader?

  9. This is how Creon misinterprets Haimon’s words. What is Creon thinks Haimon is threatening to kill him instead of Haimon himself?

  10. This is how the chorus feels about love expressed in Ode III. What is love may steal men’s hearts, but it may also strike anger between father and son?

  11. What is the Chorus’s message about vengeance in Ode II? What is once the gods have been crossed, pity to the family for they will be forever cursed?

  12. This is the case that Teiresias makes for Creon to change his mind. What is Creon has made the gods mad for not allowing Polyneices’ burial and for sentencing Antigone to death?

  13. Creon decrees that this person must not be buried. Who is Polynieces?

  14. This character fears breaking Creon’s law because the punishment is so severe. Who is Ismene?

  15. This is the punishment for breaking Creon’s law. What is public stoning?

  16. Antigone prefers to follow these laws. What are the gods’ laws?

  17. (DAILY DOUBLE) Antigone compares herself to this mythical woman for these reasons. Who is Niobe – because Niobe was killed, turned to stone, and died a lonely death.

  18. This character tries to kill his/her father, then turns the sword on him/herself. Who is Haimon?

  19. This character tries to plead for execution, but Creon refuses. Who is Ismene?

  20. This character commits suicide by hanging. Who is Antigone?

  21. These two characters die in battle. Who are Polynieces and Eteocles?

  22. This character stabs him/herself in the castle. Who is Eurydice?

  23. “If I am young and right, what does my age matter?” Who is Haimon?

  24. “I have been a stranger here in my own land: all my life, the blasphemy of my birth has followed me.” Who is Antigone?

  25. “Big words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise.” Who is the Choragus?

  26. “The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh.” Who is Teiresias?

  27. “The law is strong, we must give in to the law… I must yield to those in authority.” Who is Ismene?

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