Wednesday, March 28, 2012

HN English 10 - Antigone Curses & Prophecies (Background & Scene VI)

Complete the following assignment on the same page that you answered the two Interlude V questions from class. 

Read Scene VI.  Expect a reading check (as usual).

For both the background information and the information from Scene VI, you should list the following (be specific):
  • 3 curses that have occurred to the city of Thebes: 2 prior, 1 current
    • what is the curse?  what is going on when the curse is occurring?
  • 2 prophecies that are relevant to this myth: 1 delivered twice, 1 current prophecy
    • to whom?  what is it?
  • 3 attempts to avoid a given prophecy:2 prior, 1 current (Creon at the end of the scene)
    • who is trying to avoid it?  how do they try to avoid it?
  • 2 previous results of trying to avoid a prophecy
    • who did it?  what did they try to do?

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