BCC English Fate and Destiny & Philosophy Short Stories Questions – Description
Reading and Discussion Questions on Antigone #2
FATE AND DESTINY
1. What role do fate and free will play in Sophocles’ world view?
2. To what degree is Antigone doomed by her fate?
3. What role to fate and free will play in Creon’s destiny?
4. How does Creon’s confrontation with Tiresias affect his fate?
5. How is Thebes itself affected by the power of fate?
PHILOSOPHY
6. How does Sophocles seem to judge Antigone by the end of the play?
7. What philosophical problems do Antigone’s actions pose? How does Sophocles resolve those questions?
8. Does Sophocles seem to feel that the will of the gods serves man for good or ill?
9. What kind of hierarchy does Sophocles create among the characters in ANTIGONE?
10. Why is there so little emphasis on physical spectacle in the play?
11. What kind of life does Sophocles seem to advocate in the play?
12. What philosophical role does suffering play in Antigone?
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