Antigone Study Guide
Part E (p. 29-35)
Instructions: Answer Each of the Following Study Questions.
1. How does the Chorus feel about Antigone now?
2. What will Antigone miss in life for dying young?
3. How will Antigone differ fro most people that die?
4. According to the Chorus, what is the cause of Antigone’s fall?
5. Why is Antigone especially sad now at her predicament? (p. 33)
6. Whose approval does Antigone seek in her death?
7. Antigone says that if she had children or if the disgraced dead person were her husband,
she would not have committed this deed. Why is this so?
8. What curse does Antigone speak in her speech on page 34?
9. Compare Antigone’s attitude toward breaking the law at the beginning of the play with how
she feels about her fate now?
Antigone Study Guide
Part F (p. 35-41)
1. Break down the Chorus’s speech. What are they saying in each section?
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II. 1.
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2. What is the purpose of the choral ode, which follows Antigone’s final exit and discusses other
characters in Greek legend and myth?
3. Identify Tiresias. Where have we seen him before? Why is it ironic that he is blind?
4. Does Creon have prior knowledge of Tiresias? How do you know?
5. Paraphrase the story that Tiresias tells Creon about his experience “lately.”
6. According to Tiresias, why won’t the gods accept peace offerings or burnt sacrifices?
7. According to Tiresias, what should a man do when he errs?
8. What motivation does Creon say Tiresias has in telling him this?
9. What prophecy does Tiresias make on page 40?
10. As Tiresias leaves, what does he say Creon should learn?
11. What has finally convinced Creon to listen to others’ opinions in this situation with Antigone?
12. From whom does Creon seek advice? What is it?
13. What does Creon set out to do at the end of this section? What lesson has he finally learned?