Answer to Question #299211 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

Antigone Scene Analysis

Directions: For each day of reading, please complete the following analysis of scenes and odes in complete sentences.

Scene #/Name: Scene 4

1. Function & Purpose Where on the plot diagram does this scene fall and what does it contribute to the plot?
2. Summary of Events in complete sentences
3. Important Quote correctly cited (scene#.line#s) and 2 sentence analysis of how it helps us to analyze a character or theme 

Answer 1

In the fourth scene of Sophocles's Antigone, we find Antigone on the way to the tomb where she will be shut in alive for attempting to bury her brother. Although this family tragedy is mentioned by the Chorus as a cause for Antigone's punishment, the Chorus ultimately blames Antigone for bringing about her punishment.

The First explains Antigone's arrest. The guards had moved the corpse upwind to mitigate the stench. When he took a break for some tobacco, he found her madly clawing in the broad daylight.

Reverence is a virtue, but strengthLives in established law: that must prevail. Your death is the doing of your conscious hand. If dirges and planned lamentations could put off death, Men would be singing forever. And if she lives or dies, That's her affair, not ours: our hands are clean. The theme is  Antigone is being punished for the sins of her father, Oedipus, as much as for her own actions.