As you answer questions, note these key events / issues in
your play.
1. What crucial information does Tiresias bring to Creon when he visits the palace, and why is this significant to the conflict between Creon and Antigone?
2. In what way does Creon change Antigone's death sentence, and how does this indicate a possible change in attitude or awareness, especially in light of his debate with Haemon
2b. what is especially ironic about the nature of this punishment?
3. Identify the recognition. How do the circumstances of Creon's change of heart relate meaningfully to his debate with Haemon?
4. Identify the reversal. What about how Creon reverses his course of action a. causes it to fail and b. ironically symbolizes his conflict with Antigone?
5. Describe the nemesis faced by Creon.
6. What message is presented by the Chorus in the Exodus?
1. What crucial information does Tiresias bring to Creon when he visits the palace, and why is this significant to the conflict between Creon and Antigone?
2. In what way does Creon change Antigone's death sentence, and how does this indicate a possible change in attitude or awareness, especially in light of his debate with Haemon
2b. what is especially ironic about the nature of this punishment?
3. Identify the recognition. How do the circumstances of Creon's change of heart relate meaningfully to his debate with Haemon?
4. Identify the reversal. What about how Creon reverses his course of action a. causes it to fail and b. ironically symbolizes his conflict with Antigone?
5. Describe the nemesis faced by Creon.
6. What message is presented by the Chorus in the Exodus?
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