Pay attention to Antigone’s excuses for disobedience 2) Creon’s assumptions and 3) glorification of Antigone’s crimes–literally and the deeper significance of that glorification.
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March 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Antigone’s excuses for her disobedience was that she was really obeying Zeus and the God of the underworld because they said that people need to be burried. So she was obeying them and was told by a man not to and wasn’t going to in fear. Creon’s assumptions were that the guard who told him the news of someone attempting to burry him. The significance I think for Antigone’s glorification is the fact that she was burring him for a better afterlife for him. I’m not sure what this question is really asking for though, so if you have any ideas please tell me.
March 13, 2008 at 2:23 pm
What does it mean by glorification of her crimes i think it means that shes going to be killed by creon so it would mean that shes going to get stoned to death. Is it because that she takes the blame and is awnered to bury him even if it causes her?
March 13, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I agree with you guys on the first two questions(I would add that one of her excuses is that she has to deal with the dead longer than the living). I think that her crimes were glorified to show that she beleived in the gods and in their laws more than she beleived in a mortal mans’ word, and that she was unwilling to risk their displeasure and her brothers afterlife.
March 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I agree with Kailyn on the first two (Antigone was really obeying Zeus and Hades, the god of the underworld, because those two gods want the dead to be buried and that Creon assumed that the guard who was the messenger buried the body and later in the story Ismene helped Antigone bury the body). I split the third question into two questions and this is what I came up with: What glory did Antigone say that she had when she committed this crime? What was the significance of her glory? My answers are simple: For the first question, she says, “Yet what could I have done to win renown more glorious than giving burial to my own brother?” which means that she is happy that she will die knowing that she gave burial to her brother. She also replied to Creon when he said, “Have you no shame, not to conform with others?” and she replied, “To reverence a brother is no shame” and what I think she means by this is that she will not die in shame, but in glory. In my opinion, the significance of her glory is to show that although her family may be in chaos, she still loves them and she has risked her life to show her love for her them by burying her brother. To prove this love, Creon said, “Death does not make an enemy a friend!” and she replied by saying, “Even so, I give both love, not share their hatred.” This means that she loves both of her brothers but wasn’t on either of their sides when they fought with each other, so the significance of her glory is to show that she loves her family and that even though they might compete with each other and die because of it, she will always love them as her family.
Sorry about my answers being so long, but I hope you guys understood my main points. Good luck on the quiz!
March 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I’m really confused can someone please explain i agree with Kendall that question is a little confusng
March 13, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Wow Ryan I really uderstand it now and I would have never caught those details.
March 13, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Your welcome Elizabeth.
March 13, 2008 at 7:20 pm
DANG! moyes! thanks for the help!
you should be a translator from old books to new hip language……thanks again man!
March 13, 2008 at 7:45 pm
For the first two, well i am still a little confused about Antigone’s excuses for disobedience. But like Kailyn said, I think that Creon’s assumptions are that the guard was burying the brother. Ryan my friend…you said it for the last one. You are like some sort of super genius that realizes points that I know that I would never realize. Thanks for all of your help!!
March 13, 2008 at 7:48 pm
No problem Taylor A and O.
March 13, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Ryan, you’re amazing! Thank you so much. Way to go above and beyond! In TWO classes. You should get a prize haha. Thanks again! I think everyone has a pretty good idea of what the first two questions are asking so I will only comment on the last question. I think Ryan nailed it, but I would like to take a shot at seperating the question even more. I think that her literal glorification is knowing that she buried her brother and therefore she can live her last days in peace and know that she did what was right and know that she pleased the gods. The greater significance of her glorification is that she has pleased the gods and in her afterlife her glory will carry over and she will have it eternally along with the praise of the gods. In a way she will also be glorified in the fact that she disobeyed a man that will likely be unappealing to the gods due to his lack of attention to their desires, therefore she is better in the gods eyes than a man is, which is rare because men were assumed to be so much better than women in Ancient Greece. inI am not sure if it applies, but she could also be glorified in the fact that she is a woman and she outsmarted men (the first time) and held her own against a king without showing the weakness women are supposed to express and be prone to. Hope some of this is helpful!
March 13, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Ryan, I’m going to say thanks too. I think glorification of her crimes was that she felt her brother deserved a better respect than what he was given.
March 13, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Alright, thanks for that last part about the third question, I forgot about the literal glorification.
March 13, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Side note: I also think her glorification is that she WILL be sentenced to death. To her that’s a good thing because her life is awful right now and it has every bad thing possible, so to die would be a relief for her. She says that on page 17 by the way.