9.17 Unit Test: Timeless Literature - Part 2 Pool 1 Question 1(60 points)
Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided.
Read the excerpt from the text of Antigone. Then, in one well-developed paragraph.
make inferences about what kind of man Creon is. Explain how his words reveal his
character. Use evidence from the excerpt to support your answer.
Then, in a second well-developed paragraph, state the theme of the play and explain
how Creon--and his words in this excerpt-help develop the theme of the play. Use
evidence from the excerpt to support your answer.
Tereisias: Think all men make mistakes,
But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong.
And repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Give in to the dead man, then: do not fight with a corpse-
What glory is it to kill a man who is dead?
Think. I beg you:
it is for your own good that I speak as I do.
You should be able to yield for your own good.
Creon: It seems that prophets have made me their
especial province
All my life long
I have been a kind of butt for the dull arrows
Of doddering fortune tellers!
No. Teiresias:
If your birds-if the great eagles of God himself
Should carry him stinking bit by bit to heaven
I would not yield. I am not afraid of pollution
No man can defile the gods.
Do what you will
Go into business, make money, speculate
In India gold or that synthetic gold from Sardis,
Get rich otherwise than by my consent to bury him.