Name: _____________________________________________________________ English 10 Honors
Antigone
Analysis Questions: Scene 3/Ode 3
Directions: Answer each question thoughtfully using complete sentences.
1. Describe Haimon’s rhetorical style. What tools does he use in his attempt to sway Creon’s
thinking?
2. How do Creon’s attitudes towards women seem to influence his decision about Antigone?
Provide a quote that displays his attitude.
3. What do you think motivates Creon to change his mind about Antigone’s punishment?
4. In Ode 3, the Chorus claims that love is Haimon’s motive in defending Antigone. Can you
suggest another motive for his actions? Support your claim with evidence from the text.
Scene 4/Ode 4
5. How is Antigone’s tone in this scene differ from her tone in earlier scenes? Provide a quote
that shows this tone shift.
6. Has Antigone’s character changed since the beginning of the play, or is her new tone simply
a result of her current circumstances? Explain your thinking.
7. What does Antigone mean in line 41 when she states that her father’s “marriage strikes from
the grave to murder” her own marriage? How does the Chorus argue against this view in
lines 45-48?
8. Do you agree or disagree with the Chorus’s opinion that Antigone is responsible for her
own death? Explain your thoughts.
9. In line 69, Antigone asks that Creon’s punishment equal her own. What do you predict will
happen to Creon? Explain your thoughts.
10. What does Antigone ask the gods to remember? What motives might she have for making
this public request?
11. Read the side notes on page 726, which explain the allusions to Greek myths in Ode 4.
What does Antigone have in common with Danae, Lycurgos, and Cleopatra? Do you think
Sophocles is using this ode to condemn Antigone for her pride or to praise her courage?
Explain your thoughts.