Question

ophocles intertwines the themes of death and marriage in Antigone. Which lines in this excerpt from the play best bring out the correlation of death and marriage?
ANTIGONE:
Friends, countrymen, my last farewell I make;
My journey's done.
One last fond, lingering, longing look I take
At the bright sun.
For Death who puts to sleep both young and old
Hales my young life,
And beckons me to Acheron's dark fold,
An unwed wife.
No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea,
'Tis Death I wed.

Answer 1

@unicornbeans

Answer 2

No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea,
'Tis Death I wed.

Friends, countrymen, my last farewell I make;
My journey's done.

I think its one of those two

Answer 3

In Antigone by Sophocles, which element of tragedy is most apparent in Creon’s transformation from a proud and prosperous monarch in the beginning of the play to a defeated, lonely old man at the end of the play?
peripeteia
hamartia
hubris
anagnorisis

Answer 4

@unicornbeans

Answer 5

I honestly don't know. I never read this play.
@HannahA Do you know by chance ?

Answer 6

actually I've never read it either sorry :( you could try google

Answer 7

thanks u guys

Answer 8

sure, sorry about that...

Answer 9

have u guys read Shakespeare's Macbeth

Answer 10

I have a feeling I have but I don't remember it well, however if you have some questions on it I could try to help

Answer 11

In act I of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the witches declare, "Fair is foul, foul is fair." This statement is central to which theme of the play?
ambition
fate versus free will
appearance versus reality
power and tyranny

Answer 12

I would say C. "fair is foul, foul is fair" gives the impression that nothhing can be trusted. Kind of like the idea of "evil will be called good, good will be called evil"