How important is family loyalty? What obligations do we have to be loyal to our “blood”? Support your answer with specific examples from real life and the play.
Writers help the audience get to know a character by what the character says, what the character does, and what others say about him/her. Consider the character you are portraying in your performance of Antigone. What do you know about your character’s physical appearance? What does your character say to others? How does your character behave toward others? What do other people have to say about your character (or how do they react to him/her)?
Tiresias arguably has the most important line in the play:
“[T]o err is human, and he alone is wise and happy, who, when ills are done, persists not, but would heal the wound he made.” In other words, for a person to be both wise and happy he/she must learn how to own up to mistakes. Think of a time in your life when you (or someone you know, either in real life or in another story) made a mistake. What happened? Did you swallow your pride and own up to the mistake, or did you dig in? What did/should you have learned from that experience? At the beginning of this play, three characters have to make a decision about whether to obey the rules. Ismene and Creon decide that they must follow the law, even if (for Ismene) it means not honoring her brother’s dead body, or (for Creon) that he has to put his son’s fiancée to death. Antigone decides that it is better to break the law, even if the consequence for her is death. What would you do in their situations? Describe a time where you or someone you know had to decide whether to follow your conscience or obey the rules. What did you (or this person) do? Looking back, was it the right thing to do? How do you know?
Look up the word “pride” in the dictionary. In what way can pride be a good quality? In what way can it be bad? Give an example of each.
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Composition: 8th GradeGuidelinesThe whole purpose of this assignment - whether you're reacting to an idea, sharing your own story, or analyzing the reading - is to discuss the ultimate issues of life. With that in mind, make sure that you: Archives
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