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Antigone Questions
Antigone Questions
Please read Antigone and answer the following questions. Upload your answers here when you finish.
Link to the play: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZmF5ZXR0ZXZpbGxlaXNkLm5ldHxoaWdoLXNjaG9vbC1lbmdsaXNofGd4OjIwMjM5MWM2N2M1Y2ZmNWU
1. Is Ismene a weakling, a mere fence sitter, or does she represent a reasonable position?
Support your ideas with textual evidence.
2. Compare and contrast Ismene and Antigone. Does Antigone treat Ismene fairly?
3. What is the main idea of the first choral ode?
4. What are Creon’s values/beliefs? Support using lines from the text.
5. Why does Creon decide not to bury Polynices?
6. Which is more important: civil law or divine law?
7. Review the scene with Creon and Haemon. How does Haemon’s
attitude change over the course of this interaction?
8. How do we know that Haemon’s argument had some effect on Creon?
9. Examine the conversation between Tiresias and Creon. Of what does Creon accuse
Tiresias? What does Tiresias predict?
10. Were you surprised that Creon ultimately yields to Tiresias’ advice? Why or why not?
11. Is Creon’s punishment worse than his crime? Cite text.
12. Who is the tragic hero of the play? Cite evidence.
13. In what way is the final scene of Antigone similar to the final scene of Oedipus?
14. Do you feel sympathy with Creon at the end of the play as someone who initially tried to do
good but was overwhelmed by the circumstances, or do you believe that he is a bullying,
misogynistic control-freak who gets what he deserves?
15. Were you surprised that Antigone decides to take her own life? Why or why not?
16. Is unshakeable willpower a virtue or a flaw?
17. Overall, did you enjoy the play? Why or why not?
18. What questions do you still have? If you don’t have any, leave #18 blank.
Please read Antigone and answer the following questions. Upload your answers here when you finish.
Link to the play: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZmF5ZXR0ZXZpbGxlaXNkLm5ldHxoaWdoLXNjaG9vbC1lbmdsaXNofGd4OjIwMjM5MWM2N2M1Y2ZmNWU
1. Is Ismene a weakling, a mere fence sitter, or does she represent a reasonable position?
Support your ideas with textual evidence.
2. Compare and contrast Ismene and Antigone. Does Antigone treat Ismene fairly?
3. What is the main idea of the first choral ode?
4. What are Creon’s values/beliefs? Support using lines from the text.
5. Why does Creon decide not to bury Polynices?
6. Which is more important: civil law or divine law?
7. Review the scene with Creon and Haemon. How does Haemon’s
attitude change over the course of this interaction?
8. How do we know that Haemon’s argument had some effect on Creon?
9. Examine the conversation between Tiresias and Creon. Of what does Creon accuse
Tiresias? What does Tiresias predict?
10. Were you surprised that Creon ultimately yields to Tiresias’ advice? Why or why not?
11. Is Creon’s punishment worse than his crime? Cite text.
12. Who is the tragic hero of the play? Cite evidence.
13. In what way is the final scene of Antigone similar to the final scene of Oedipus?
14. Do you feel sympathy with Creon at the end of the play as someone who initially tried to do
good but was overwhelmed by the circumstances, or do you believe that he is a bullying,
misogynistic control-freak who gets what he deserves?
15. Were you surprised that Antigone decides to take her own life? Why or why not?
16. Is unshakeable willpower a virtue or a flaw?
17. Overall, did you enjoy the play? Why or why not?
18. What questions do you still have? If you don’t have any, leave #18 blank.
Animal Farm Chapter Summary
Read animal farm. You can find the book for free online or you can check out a copy from the school. You can also listen to the audiobook on youtube.
A. Write a summary about each chapter. It should be 3 sentences covering key points from the chapter. There are 10 chapters so there will be 10 summaries.
B. Explain this quote: But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?
A. Write a summary about each chapter. It should be 3 sentences covering key points from the chapter. There are 10 chapters so there will be 10 summaries.
B. Explain this quote: But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?