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What effect does the time frame have on the play?

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Is it better to be alive or dead at the end of Antigone and Oedipus? Who wins? Is it having your values triumph in the end?

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If Antigone is the tragic hero what is her fatal flaw?

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In the end are Antigone and Ismene foils? They have opposite perspectives/rationales at the beginning of the play but in the end both seem to chose family.

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How are Creon and Oedipus alike, both believing they are on the same level of the gods? Is one's punishment worse than the other?

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Which seems to be of greater significance: honor or fate?

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What influences the chorus' shift in opinion at the final scene

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What influences the chorus' shift in opinion at the final scene? Why do they change their minds?

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What influences the chorus' shift in opinion at the final scene? Why do

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How is

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How are relationships between brothers (Polyneices and Eteocles, Creon and Oedipus (brothers-in-laws) depicted differently than relationships between sisters (Antigone and Ismene)?

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At the time of this play, what would the message be of Antigone vs. Ismene? How does that differ from how we interpret those characters/their actions in modern times?

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Should Creon have chosen

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Does death give the women in these stories the power that they lack in their society?

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Is Antigone the real tragic hero

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So who was the tragic hero of the play?

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Antigone Sa

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Is unshakeable willpower a strength or a flaw? Why/why not?

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How does Antigone's death speak to her values? Why are these her values?

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If Antigone were a male, would the outcome have been different? Would Creon sympathize more readily? Respect the opinion of a man greater than that of a female?

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Is fate the enemy?

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What do Jocasta and Eurydice's suicides say about women?

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In the end, what was seen as more important in the play? The State or the Family

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Almost all of the female characters die in these two stories. Does death give women from these stories the power that they lack in their society?

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In what way is the final scene of Antigone similar to the final scene of Oedipus? How/why do these similarities matter?

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Antigone says "If it is the others who are wrong I wish them no greater punishment than mine" (55).  Do you think their punishments are greater?

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Is Creon’s punishment worse than his crime?

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Compare Antigone and Ismene. Is Ismeme a wimp? Is she a coward? Does she represent a more rational position?

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Did Creon fulfill or break his promise to Oedipus regarding Antigone and Ismeme? (140-141)

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Was justice served?

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How does fate and the gods play a role in Antigone? How does this compare to their role in Oedipus?

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What is the purpose of the chorus on/around page 56?