Antigone Study Guide 2025/2026 Updated Solution

"Unhappiness, Calamity, disgrace, dishonor---which of these have you and I not
known?" - ANS-Antigone
"Will you join hands with me and share my task?" - ANS-Antigone
"Remember too that we are women, not made to fight with men." - ANS-Ismene
"Therefore, beseeching pardon from the dead, I yield to those who have authority;" -
ANS-Ismene
"...if I have to die for this pure crime, I am content, for I shall rest beside him." - ANSAntigone
"Against the city's will I am too weak." - ANS-Ismene
"I shall hate you more if you keep silent and do not proclaim it." - ANS-Antigone
"...for it cannot be so dreadful to die a coward's death." - ANS-Antigone
"A man who rules a state and will not steer the wisest course, but is afraid, and says not
what he thinks, that man is worthless;" - ANS-
"Such is your will, my lord; so you do requite our city's champion and our city's foe." -
ANS-Chorus
"Death is indeed the price, but love of gain has often lured a man to his destruction." -
ANSDebating with myself, not swift nor sure. This way, a short road soon becomes a long
one." - ANS-Guard
"I am the unlucky man who drew the prize." - ANS-Guard
"There was a muttering against my edict, wagging of heads in secret, restiveness and
discontent with my authority." - ANS-Creon
"But when my mother's son lay dead, had I neglected him and left him there unburied,
that would have caused me grief; this causes me none. And if you think it folly, then
perhaps I am accused of folly by the fool." - ANS-Antigone
"And now to that (breaking the law) she adds a second outrage---to boast of what she
did, and laugh at us." - ANS-Creon