Antigone-Literary Devices

"Sold your soul for some silver" (203).

"Ismene, / Snake in my ordered house, sucking my blood/ Stealthily" (212).

"Pleasure to her alone who mocks us, merciless Aphrodite" (15-16).

"Big words are always punished, / And proud men in old age learn to be wise" (245).

What is hubris?

Ismene experiences an internal conflict in this tragedy.

"And the man who dared do this?" (88).

"Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way" ( 191).

"Gentlemen: I have the honor to inform you that our/ Ship of State, which recent storms have ..." (196).

"O tomb, vaulted bride-bed in eternal rock" (227).

Which literary device is being used? "rises behind each child / Like a wave cresting out of the black northeast" (215).

Are Ismene and Antigone foils or just sisters?

"How often I have heard the story of Niobe, / Tantalos' wretched daughter...I feel the loneliness in mine (225).

"She has much to learn...the wildest horses bend their necks/ at the pull of the smallest curb" (209).

Dramatic irony occurs in the end when Creon wants to die but "the sky is deaf" (244).

"You dazzle me / -But enough of this talk!" (214).

"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver" (213).

The audience cleanses emotions and gains new understanding of life

"Let death come quickly, and be kind to me" (28).

"Thebes...rose like a dragon behind him, shouting war" (18-20).