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Antigone
Flashcards on the short story by Sophocles
26
English
10th Grade
10/06/2010

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Father of Antigone
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Oedipus
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Wife of Creon
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Eurydice
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Betrothed to Antigone
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Haemon
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Blind Prophet
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Tiresias
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Ruler of Thebes
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Creon
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Dishonored brother of Antigone
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Polynices
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stubborn daughter of Oedipus
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Antigone
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Sister of Antigone
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Ismene
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Honored brother of Antigone
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Sophocles
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Mother of Antigone
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Jocasta
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Defends Thebes
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Eteocles
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Takes his own life
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Haemon
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Lays curse upon her husband
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Eurydice
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"If i permit my own family to rebel, how shall i earn the worlds obedience"
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Creon
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"Impossibel things should not be tried at all"
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Ismene
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"It is the dead not the living who make the longest demands"
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Antigone
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"No ruler can expect complete loyalty from his subjects until he has been tested in office"
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Creon
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"All these men would praise me were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you"
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Antigone
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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver"
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Antigone
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"Then she must die. But her death will cause another"
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Haemon
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"The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh"
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Tireseas
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"My own blind heart has brought me from darkness to final darkness"
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Creon
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom"
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Choragos

 

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Hubris
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overbearing pride or presumption
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Hamartha
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Tragic flaw
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Catharsis
Definition
emotional release
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