Episode Two
Obedience
Objective: Identifying with characters
Activity - Journal Response
In
Episode Two (lines 301 - 464), the sentry discovers Antigone in the act of
burying Polynices. He brings her before Creon, who questions her actions
harshly. After all, she is his niece, his subject, and soon to be the wife of
his son, Haimon. Should she not obey his dictate, no matter who the unburied
man may be? Antigone defends her actions, telling Creon that is the law of the
gods states that no man should be left unburied, and that these laws of the
gods supersede his own. Creon, infuriated by Antigone’s continued defiance,
sentences her to death.
Surely
both Antigone and Creon have valid points. Which of the two do you feel has a
stronger justification for his or her actions?
In
a journal entry, discuss your feelings regarding Creon’s decree, Antigone’s
defiance, and Creon’s intended punishment of Antigone. Decide whose cause you
are more sympathetic to, Creon’s or Antigone’s, and list three to five reasons
for this.
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