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Antigone: Scene 1: Quiz 2

  1. Creon enters and addresses the Chorus from the top step. He delivers a political address. What symbol does he use as an extended metaphor?

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  1. What law does Creon decree? What is his justification for the new statute?

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  1. Which of the following statements is an actuallinethat represents Creon’s priorities?

Circle as many as apply.

  1. “It is not fair but we do what we can/ together, to achieve a fair democracy—while recognizing the rights of each man.”
  2. “As said by the Greeks: I am all ears.”
  3. “And whomever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.”
  4. “Our country is our safety.”
  5. “To our women: we depend on your strength, mourning, and empathy/We allow you to grieve whom you choose.”
  6. “I am next in kin to the dead/ I now possess the throne and all its powers.”
  1. Which of the following best describes Creon’s reaction to the Sentry? Circle all that apply.

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  1. anger
  2. insecurity
  3. amusement
  4. respect
  5. impatience
  6. boredom

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  1. How does the sentry act when he addresses Creon? What does this suggestabout Creon’s reputation?
  2. He is very afraid, albeit snarky; Creon has a short temper and a harshpersonality.
  3. He is formal; Creon only listens to professional deliveries.
  4. He is apathetic; no one in the kingdom respects Creon.
  5. He is belligerent; no one in the kingdom takes Creon seriously.
  6. He is absurd; his behavior says nothing about Creon.
  1. Annotate the following passage. Specifically, what is the meaning of the passage as a whole? What is the meaning of each Strophe?

CHORUS: [Strophe 1]

Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none

More wonderful than man; the storm-gray sea

Yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; 280

Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven

With shining furrows where his plows have gone

Year after year, the timeless labor of stallions.

[Antistrope 1]

The light-boned birds and beasts that cling to cover, 285

The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water,

All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind;

The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned,

Resign to him; and his blunt yoke has broken

The sultry shoulders of the mountain bull.

[Strophe 2]

Words also, and thought as rapid as air, 290

He fashions to his good use; statecraft is his,

And his the skill that deflect the arrows of snow,

The spears of winter rain: from every wind

He has made himself secure––from all but one:

In the late wind of death he cannot stand.

[Antistrophe 2]

O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! 295

O fate of man, working both good and evil!

When the laws are kept, how proudly his city stands!

When the laws are broken, what of his city then?

Never may the anarchic man find rest at my hearth,

Never be it said that my thoughts are his thoughts. 300

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