Antigone, 2

Knowlege:

1. Who is Antigone's husband?
2. What was Antigone's sentence for the crime?

Comprehension:

1. How is Creon related to Antigone?
2. Why was the Sentry so happy to turn Antigone into Creon?

Application:

1. What makes Creon say that Antigone is not acting like a women and more like a man?
2. What is Creon trying to accomplish in killing Antigone and Ismene?

Analysis:

1. What is Ismene's motivation for claiming she commited the crime with Antigone even though she didn't and had originally refused to?
2. How is Antigone a tragic character? how is Haenmon a tragic character?

Synthesis:

1. How do Antigone and Oedipus relate? How do Haenmon and Jocasta relate?
2. How does the author use the leader/ chorus to evoke pity and fear in the audiance?
3. How does the author use character contrasts and plot to develop the idea of gender rolls?

Evaluation:

1. What insight about Sophicles' outlook on Gender Rolls is portrayed through character foils in Antigone? How does this relate to other greek plays and their outlooks on gender rolls?
2. Contrast themes in Oedipus and Antigone; what idea does the author portray by contrasting these themes?
3. How does Oedipus' fate relate to that of his sons and his daughters? Is it the same or diffrent and how? What idea does this create?