Name _______________________
Antigone Review Sheet 2
English 10
More characters in Antigone:
Haemon
Haemon is the son of ____________ and is engaged to marry
________________.
Haemon argues that Antigone should not be killed, saying that the
______________ of _______________ agree with him.
Haemon says a wise man knows to give in when ___________________,
saying “In flood time you can see how some trees bend.”
____________ becomes angry with Haemon, saying “You consider it right
for a man of my years to go to school to a boy?”
Tiresias
Tiresias is a blind prophet (is able to see into the future) who comes to
Creon with a _______________.
Tiresias says the gods are _________________ at Creon for ordering
Antigone killed and Polyneices let unburied.
Creon says Tiresias must have accepted a _______________________.
Tiresias says someone in _____________’s family will die for every
person he causes to die. Tiresias also says Creon will be
__________________ forever in the next world.
Creon didn’t want to change his mind for fear he would look like a
______________ king.
FINALLY Creon decided to do as Tiresias said, setting __________________
free and ____________ Polyneices.
Chorus
The chorus believes that:
a. We should feel sorry for Antigone
b. Antigone brought her troubles on herself.
c. both
d. neither
Eurydice
Eurydice is _______________ wife and the ___________ of Thebes.
What happens at the end of Antigone?
Three characters __________ _____________________:
_______________ hangs herself inside the cave, her only regret that she never
__________ _________________.
_______________ stabs himself to death with his sword after trying to kill Creon
_______________ stabs herself inside the castle after hearing of Haemon’s death.
She dies cursing Creon, her husband.
Creon blames (Antigone, himself) for the deaths.
Creon’s tragic flaw was that he was too arrogant and ______________________, causing
his poor judgment.
The theme of Antigone
Tiresias says “The only crime is _____________.”
This means that being ______________________ may lead to your _____________.