RR #5

Reading Response #5 Questions - Must be AT LEAST 500 WORDS!

1.  In literature, the word agency means, “the freedom and capacity to live or act in a defined world.”  And so, when you look at the character of Antigone, to what extent does she have agency in the play?  In what ways have you seen her act on her own ability to live and survive in this particular world?

2.  Discuss the irony behind the role of Teiresias in the play.

3.  Taking into account the conflict between Antigone and Creon, is there any way to tell what point of view Sophocles, the playwright, holds towards the conflict and what might the evidence be for the playwright's point of view?