What imagery is used in these lines? The words and phrases used in the passage create an image of a strong and fortified city. In addition, the audience is able to envision a festive scene with words that appeal to sight, sound, and touch. The word choice reveals a proud tone and sets a joyful mood for the audience. Who reveals the details of the battle to the audience?
Which event completes the series of events? Theban armies defeat rebels. Sight Read the excerpt below from the play Antigone by Sophocles and answer the question that follows. CHORUS:Standing above our homes, he ranged around our seven gates, with threats to swallow usand spears thirsting to kill. Which word describes the mood this passage creates for the audience? Mood Which event causes Eteocles and Polyneices to engage one another in battle? The Theban army counterattacks. According to this passage, which personality trait did the ancient Greeks value?
Each brother kills the other. Tone Read the excerpt below from the play Antigone by Sophocles and answer the question that follows.
For if she does not, Polyneices will not be accepted into heaven. She is driven. For example, this flaw of excess greed inspires Creon to commit crimes against his own niece and son that result in a tragic ending for all involved. To this day there is still no agreement.
Some people believe that Antigone is the real tragic hero of this tragedy, while others believe that the hero is in fact her uncle, Creon. It is logical to say that Antigone is the tragic hero. Civil disobedience is refusing to follow certain laws as a form of political protest.
In Antigone, written by Sophocles, Antigone rebels against the laws of Creon and buries her brother, Polynieces, when everyone was ordered not to. He accuses her of taking bribes and refuses to believe her warning. Tiresias tells him that his refusal to bury Polynices and his punishment of Antigone for the burial will bring the curses of the gods down on Thebes.
Hearing this, Creon curses Tiresias, calling him a false prophet who traffics in poor advice and rhetoric. But there is a small catch. Hades says Eurydice must walk behind Orpheus as they travel back to the upper world — Orpheus is forbidden from looking back at Eurydice until they have exited the Underworld. Creon is saying that he has no ambitions of becoming ruler. He has everything he wants. This rings true, because when Laius was killed, Creon could have had the throne—in fact, that was what Laius wanted.
Instead, he offered it to anyone who could free Thebes from the Sphinx by solving its riddle. Rather than mocking Oedipus, who has just accused him of some pretty terrible things, Creon is gentle. More specifically, upholding and maintaining laws once those laws are put into effect.
In the very beginning of Antigone, Creon — quite frankly — spells out that he values the status of the state over any personal friendships. Oedipus accuses Creon of trying to overthrow him, since it was he who recommended that Tiresias come.
Creon asks Oedipus to be rational, but Oedipus says that he wants Creon murdered. Zeus is one of the powerful gods of Greek mythology. In fact, Haemon and Tiresias do not even address these issues.
However, their silence in this regard should not make us fail to raise these questions and become aware of the impossibility of answering them on the basis of the Antigone. JEBB, R. Brill, KNOX, B. MOST, G. Harvey, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 4th edn WEST, M. On this particular issue, see e. He probably has her behaviour in and in mind, where it is obvious that she is proud of having buried Polynices.
Nevertheless, she is not at all laughing at the fact of having done it. JEBB Ed. However, the fact that both recognize at least the possibility of being mistaken not only reinforces the idea that there is an error but also shows the dramatic impact of this idea: that it is crucial in the unwinding of the events in the drama and in how these events determine the awareness of its main characters.
In the traditional form of tragedy, the emphasis is placed, among other things, on the fact that tragic events occur contrary to human expectations cf. ARISTOTLE, Poetics a ; this means that Greek tragedy aims to show that human beings have limitations when it comes to taking control of their lives and that they always learn too late and only through suffering of tragic events — see e.
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