Antigone Guided Reading Questions – Prologue and Parados
1. What is the setting (time and place)?
2. How are Antigone and Ismene related?
3. How are Antigone and Ismene different?
4. Who are the two brothers mentioned? How did they die?
5. What law did King Creon pass?
6. What does Antigone plan to do?
7. What is Ismene’s decision regarding Creon’s law?
8. What is Ismene’s view of the relationship between men and women?
9. What is the purpose of the Chorus?
10. Which side did the Chorus favor in the war?