1. English II Honors—November 5, 2015
Daily Warm-up: Stage directions are often placed within parentheses and printed in italics. When reading a play script, use this text feature to help you visualize the story’s setting and character’s movement. Note: “Left” and “right” directions are from the actor’s point of view as he or she faces the audience.
Skim/scan the text of the opening scene of Antigone on p What key information is provided by the stage directions?
Homework:
Study for Lesson 21 and 22 Vocabulary Quiz on Friday.
Reading Plus due Sunday at 11:59

2. A Tragic Family Creon Sad Angry Vengeful
Character
Three Adjectives to Describe How you Feel
Why do you feel this way?
What will you do?
Why do you think this is a just response?
Creon
Sad
Angry
Vengeful
Sad and angry that my nephews are dead, and vengeful that my decree was disobeyed.
Take out my anger on the person who disobeyed me.
I am the king, so my subjects should obey my rules.
Antigone
Self-righteous
Indignant
I am angry because my brother is being disrespected.
Disobey the law.
I care about my family.
Ismene
Afraid
Compassionate
Worried
I am worried about my sister, but understand why she broke the law.
Support my sister, but not break the law.
My family is more important to me than the law.
Haemon
Distressed
Loving
Careful
I am upset that my fiancée is in trouble.
Support my fiancée, but I have to be careful not to make my dad upset.
I love both my fiancée and my dad.
The Chorus
Cautious
We have to be careful not to upset the king.
Stay neutral.
We have to be good citizens.
The Guard
Scared
I didn’t do my job correctly.
Be honest.
If I don’t tell the truth, I will get in more trouble.

3. Greek Tragedy Play Structure: Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Denouement/Resolution
Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama
1. Plot (the incidents or story line)
2. Character (physical, social, psychological, moral--people represented in the play)
3. Thought/Theme (insights into humanity and life)
4. Music (all sound)
5. Spectacle (scenery and other visual elements)
6. Diction/language (the dialogue and poetry)

4. Greek Tragedy Continued
1. Tragedy is meant to reaffirm the fact that life is worth living, regardless of the suffering or pain that is part of human existence.
2. Tragedies are about people in conflict with the universe.
Tragedies are always about spiritual conflicts, never about every day events.
3. Tragic actions arise from a character's inner conflict.
A tragic protagonist must have magnitude; his struggles are great because he is important to society.
4. The tragic protagonist must fall from high to low; they will have a noble soul.
The audience must care about the tragic protagonist.
5. The tragic protagonist is a good man, but not perfect.
He usually suffers from hubris (Pride) as shown through hamartia (character flaw or error in judgment). Once the transgression is realized, the character enters the stage of anagnorisis (recognition) and will undergo a peripeteia (reversal of fortune or fall from high to low).
6. The protagonist's actions should arouse feelings of both pity and fear in the audience.
Pity because the protagonist is better than we are, so we place ourselves into his position (empathy).
Fear because we too do not know our future or fate.
7. By the end of the play, the audience should be purged of pity and fear, so they go through a catharsis.
Catharsis = purgation of pity and fear
8. The tragic protagonist must ask the first and last of all questions: What does it mean to be?
He must face the world alone, unaccommodated, and kick against his fate.
He can never escape his fate, but he will insist upon accepting fate on his own terms.

5. Tragic Hero Aristotle's Definition of a tragic hero:
1. Comes from nobility
2. Tragic flaw (caused by a simple mistake or a character flaw) maybe pride
3. Undergoes a reversal of fortune (falls from high to low)
4. Has a downfall
5. Recognizes his mistakes (in a catharsis or purgation of pity and fear)

6. Antigone Vocabulary
anarchist—n. a person who believes that government and laws are unnecessary
auspicious—adj. conducive to success; favorable
contempt—n. the feeling or belief that a person or thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
defile—v. desecrate or profane (something sacred)
impassively—adv. doing something without emotion
insolence—n. rude and disrespectful behavior

7. Antigone Vocabulary
Stage directions—instructions written into the script of a play that indicate stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
Sticomythia—the delivery of dialogue in a rapid, fast-paced manner, with actors speaking emotionally and leaving very little time between speakers.
lamentation—n. the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping
perverse—adj. (of a person or their actions) showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences
reverence—n. deep respect for someone or something
sate—v. satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full
sententiously—adv. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.
transgress—v. infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior).

8. Soul Sisters
Character
Quotations that Show Character Intent or Emotion
Adjectives to Describe the Character (Include Textual Evidence)
Antigone
Ismene
What key information about the Cadmus family is revealed in the opening scene?
What are the sisters’ conflicting emotions?
How does Sophocles use the sisters’ interaction to advance the plot?