Choose two themes and discuss how each theme is similar or different to a theme in the other plays.

Family comes above all
In both Medea and both Sophicles plays the authors stress the importants of family and the family name. In Medea the importance of family is stressed by Medea character and her desire to keep her family together. Expecially her reaction to Jason leaving her. In Antigone Sophicles stress the importance of family by Antigone's need and desire to bury her brother. In Oedipus he stress the importance of family by his disgrace in ruining his family name for his daugthers and sons.

Power given to only one person creates a tryannt.
In both Antigone and Oedipus Sophicles creates Creon and Oedipus as tyrants. They over react to challenges of their power with anger and rash decisions. Oedipus over reacts to Tiresase prophecy and to Creon possible challenging him for power. In Medea Creon over reacts to medea as does Jason to start with and this angers Medea by banishing her. These character when given to much power over react and try to defend their positon at all cost.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 3

Word Choice:
During Creon and Antigone's argument Anouilh repeats many words and ideas. Choose a word or idea and discuss how Anouilh uses the term.
Sometimes Anouilh uses ambiguous terms, identify how the terms affect your interpretation of characters and their motivations.

Life is like water
Anouilhs repeats the idea that life is like water over and over again in Creons argument with Antigone. This give us a lot of insight into Creons character and what his view on life are and how they influence his decision and mental attitude.

Abstract idea of paying ofr you decsions
Anouilh repeates the idea of paying for your decsions in life. Creon talks about how he doesn't want Antigone to die as a payment to peace and securtiy for the city and Antigone counter with the idea that Creon must pay for saying yes to being king and that his suffering is the paymetn for his yes. This idea that the characters must pay for thing with pain and struggles in their life makes it seem like their characters got the lossing end of a deal.

Characters motivation

Think about the character you will be performing. What motivates him/her? What role does this motivation play? Use evidence from the play to defend your response.

Jason's motivation
Jason's motivation is fear and a need for security and power he is also driven by revenage toward Medea for taking his security and power from him. Jason fear is driven by who Medea is and her personality to kill without thinking to get what she wants. Jason need for security and power is reveal by him divorcing Medea and marrying Creon's daughter. This action would have given him security in life both politicaly and financialy with wealth that being a king or a prince brings.

Evidence:
"She, she shall be repaid through her victims"(73).

"Does she think that she can kill a princess and a country's king and vanish with impunity?"(73).

"I'll show you, first, it was an act of common sense,"(50).

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 2

4 literary techniques and their effects

Metaphor
"Wasn't I a miserable little beast when we were small?"(10).
Antigone compares herself to a little beast a pest something that is small and annoying and this gives us insight into how she views herself.

Imagery
Creates the image of the guards being dumb brutal beast and down plays her respect for them and also the readers respect.
"[...]surrounded by guards with their idiot faces all bloated, their animal hands clean-washed for the sacrifice, their beefy eyes squinting as they stare at us"(12). The effect is that it creates an image of the guards as being dumb mindless obeident creature who obey Creon and it helps to create the idea that Creon is a tryant and the he controls everyone who follows him.

Foreshadowing
"But if there was a reaon why I couldn't go on taliking to her"(15).
Foreshadow the idea that Antigone already knows that she is going to die and it helps reveal that she is going to be caught and be punished to death.

Personification: "[...]that there is something inside you that si just-dying?"(18). Idea that Antigone is everything to Haemon and that this personification that her love is killing something inside of him shows how great it is.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 1

what do you know about the 1940s in Europe and how do you predict that will influence Anouilh's version of Antigone.

During the 1940's World War 2 was going on and for a portion of that time France was occupied by the Nazi's. This could really affect Anouih's version of Antigone because see was French and expeirenced a really hard time full of traitors to her people and also people who stood up against the nazi in resitance groups. I believe that this will influence her version of antigone to stand up agaisnt oprresion and morally wrong things

Antigone Journal # 3

Journal: finish your casting of the characters
1. name
2. actor/actress - description of appearance, personality, age, etc.
3. why you made the choices you did

Antigone
"I was born to join in love, not hate that is my nature"( 86).
"I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone"(87).
Age mid to early twenties. A person who is very religous. Is very emotional and can be rash. Actress- Carrie Underwood
Why- She is very religous in her music and in her music videos she does a great job protraying her emotions expecially saddness. Antigone character really express her emotion and i want and actress who does the same.

Ismene
"We must be sensible..."(62)
"Why rush to extremes?"(62)
Younger than Antiogones character. age late teen to early twenties. Very obident to the law. Doesn't break the las Actress Taylor Swift.
Why- Never has broken the law that i know of. Seems very moralistic and has good common sense. Ismene's character is reserved and catious.

Creon
"So, men our age, we're to be lectured are we?- schooled by a boy his age?"(96).
"What? The City is the king's- that's the law!"(97).
Age forties. Acts full of anger and is defiant in his postions and beliefs. Slightly balding with gray hair. Possible actor Mr. Wilson.
Why- Creon is very stubborn and argues his postions well. He believe he knows a lot and that is true but can refuse to see others points of veiw. Mr. Wilson can be a fairly good actor.

Haemon
"It's no city at all, owned by one man alone"(97).
-"Father, I'm your son ...you in your wisdom [...]I obey you" (93)
Personality. Very just and strong headed he sees both side of a situation and juges it fairly. He respects his place in society and he respects his father. Age early twentys tall, muscular atractive man who people admire.
Why- Haemon listens to what the people of Thebes say and he understand the fear they have in speaking against his father. Even though he belive speaking against a person father is wrong he does it because being just is more important to him.

Leader
"she hasn't learned to bend before adversity"(82)
"[...]could this possibly be the work of the gods?"(72).
Old late forties early fifties. Gray hair kid of log. Acts sort of goffy and looks sort of off. Grizzled beard gray.
Why- The leader sort of seems like an odd character and he is very observant of things but he doesn't really express what he thinks. This shows that he is very reserved but he speaks about obvious things. He also forshadows things and old werid people just seem like the best people for forshadowing.

Sentry
"i could have sworn i wouldn't hurry back{...}"(79)
"[...]jostling, baiting each other to keep awake[...]"(800
Age. early twenties. Light brown hair muscaular. probaly a colloge student. not to intelligent a person who like to screw aroung who is also somewhat of a coward.
Why- the century was afraid of punsihment and was going to run away. He also speicifys how he like to srew around and that they fell asleep the first time. show he doesn't take his job that serious need someone who will screw around and not make the best decisons.

Antigone Journal #2

Write two questions, pertaining to tonight's reading, for each level of questioning.

Knowledge Level (The recall of specific information):

Who is Antigone's father?
Who is Creon's son?

Comprehension Level (An understanding of what was read):

Why did Creon sentence anyone who burys Polynicies body to Death?
Why did Antigone believe Polynicies need to be buried also?

Application Level (The converting of abstract content to concrete situations):

Would you die to fullfill your religous obligations to a dead family member? Why or why not?
What is Ismene motivation for claming she had something to do with the burial of Polynicies?

Analysis (The comparison and contrast of the content to personal experiences):

What does Antigones and Ismene sacrifice of their lives for family mean about the importance of family in Greece?
What does Creon's refusal to pardon Antigone partially based on the fact that she is a women mean about the gender role of women in Greece?

Synthesis (The organization of thoughts, ideas, and information from the content):

How does the author protray the ideals of greek society in the characters Antigone and Ismene?
How does the author use the chorus contrasting lines when they are inteeracting with Creon and by them selves to invoke pity in the audience?

Evaluation (The judgment and evaluation of characters, actions, outcomes, etc…)

Is Antigone beleif that the gods demand her actions a plausable mean to justify her actions?
Was Creon irrational in his desire to fullfill the law or must all laws be followed or are their certain laws that must not be enfoced?

Antigone journal #1

3 literary techniques and their effect.

Metaphor: "he's flying headlong now the bridle of fate stampeding him with pain!"(65;124). Evokes the image and effect that fate is unstopable and builds to the common them about the role of fate in peoples lives.

Image: "his spears thirsting for the kill"(65;1340. The effect it creates is that killing is a nesseciatey it makes Polynices look like a brutal killer. It helps create this hate and distrust for Polynices because of the chorus' view of him.

Dramatic Irony: "These are the instigators, I'm convinced- they've perverated my gaurd, brived them to do their work"(73;332-334). This is dramtic irony because in Oedipus, Creon was being accussed of ploting against Oedipus and in this situation Creon is sure there is a faction against him and we know that this is not true but Creon is over reacting and this is the very thing he warned Oedipus about.

Medea Jouranl # 3

Journal: Compare the elements of tragedy in Medea and Oedipus. Look specifically at at the use of catharsis. Pay attention to how you organize your comparison. Be sure you start with a thesis/topic sentence.

In Medea and Oedipus the order of the catharsis is very built up very different changing the book.

In Medea

The story is first built up out of pity for Medea's situation and then it evokes fear in the audience for how Medea character turns out so full of hate and anger toward Jason. By building up the pity first and then using the fear of Medea and the drastic actions she resolves the pity with the fear almost balanceing them out by the end of the play resolving them.

In Oedipus sophocles builds up to the catharsis very differently. In Oedipus first the fear is built up and then the pity is evoked by his situation and it remove the fear and then it resolves it when he finally learns the truth.

Both Oedipus and Medea are different in how the cartharsis is reached but the have many other similar tragic elements. Both tragic heros are well off people that are above normal people of society that suffer. In both plays the suffering of the character starts before the play starts and the truth and polt is gradually revealed about what happened to them. Another tragic element of the play that in the end both heros take something vauable to them away from themselves. In Medea its here boys and in Oedipus it is his eyes because his eyes and seeing mean so much to him and this is revelaed in his mockery of Teiresisas

Medea Jouranl # 2

Compare and contrast Jason and Medea's interactions and attitudes towards the gods.



Medea interatcions with the gods place her on a similar level with the gods and she is more on a freind based relationship that the gods help her out when they can. With Jason his interaction with the gods are more distant yet he still expects the god to be playing a role in everything.



Jason



"... It was Aphrodite and no oen else in heaven or earth who saved me on my voyage"(50;527) ---Jason has this relience that the gods are in charge of everything and everything happened because of Aphrodite on the trip to get the golden fleece.

"Zeus, do you hear how I'm at bay,..."(77;1405)-- Jason calls on Zeus and expects him to do something and just begs him to do something to punish Medea.



Medea



"... now these treasures which were handed down by my father's father- the glorious Sun"(62;954-955).--Medea establish a personal relationship with the god through her linage and the conection she has to the gods.



"This chariot, the Sun-my father's father- gave me"(74;1322-1323).--Same relationship as the quote previous.



"Zeus the Father know exactly whtat you got from me..."(75;1352). Creates a personal relationship with another god by using father in describing Zeus and by say Zeus know creates this idea that she has a close relationship with the gods.

"O Zeus, wht made you give us clear signs for telling..."(49;5160). Medea again express the idea that she has a close relationship with teh gods and that Zeus is revealing things to her.