How do the archetypes in these passages support the universal theme that one's values are worth risking one's
life for?
Read the excerpts from "The Royal House of Thebes"
and "The Story of a Warrior Queen."
Antigone and Ismene heard with horror what Creon had
decided. To Ismene, shocking as it was, overwhelming
her with anguish for the pitiful dead body and the lonely,
homeless soul, it seemed, nevertheless, that nothing
could be done except to acquiesce [to accept without
protest]. She and Antigone were utterly alone. All Thebes
was exulting that the man who had brought war upon
them should be thus terribly punished. "We are women,"
she told her sister. "We must obey. We have no strength
to defy the State." "Choose your own part," Antigone
said. "I go to bury the brother I love."
-"The Royal House of Thebes"
O Both Antigone and Boadicea are warriors who decide
to go to war for what they believe is right.
O Both Antigone and Boadicea are heroes who go to
battle against their enemies.
O Both Antigone and Boadicea are heroines who
choose their values over their lives, knowing they
may die in the process.
O Both Antigone and Boadicea are villains who
transgress the law in order to fight for their values.
"Is it not better to be poor and free than to have great
wealth and be slaves?" she [Boadicea] asked. "And the
Romane taka pot ophour frondom but our Walth Thou
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