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Sophocles, Antigone

Main Characters: Antigone, Creon (the King), Ismene (Antigone’s sister), the Chorus, the Guard, Haimon (Creon’s and Euridike’s son), Euridike (Creon’s wife/Haimon’s mother), Teiresias (the prophet), the messenger.

1. Aristotle writes that the tragic hero suffers from a harmartia or error. Who is the tragic hero of the play? Why do you think so?

2. Who is in the right? Antigone? Creon? Both? Neither? Why?

3. What makes this play tragic?

4. What is the role of the chorus in this production? How do they fit into the play?

5. What do you think about the way the production differentiates between divine law and human law? Which characters do you think are more closely linked to what (kind of) law?

6. Why is this art? What is the relationship between Antigone and a painting or a statue, such that we can call them both art?