Sentrys Discovery

The Sentry gives a great metaphor of antigone. The metaphor the sentry used to compare to Antigone was a bird. "And she cried out a sharp, piercing cry, like a bird come back to an empty nest, peering into its bed, and all the babies gone." It reveals Antigones more fierce side. She gives more emotion then you think she does, and is, in fact, a very strong couragous character, but thats not how you first view her. Its important for the course and development of the play because it shows her true self, and what she is going to turn into. It displays how her ferocity and anger will change the course of events.

Sentry Speech Response

The speech by Sentry has a definite metaphor. This metaphor is comparing Antigone to a bird. In his speech, Sentry states, "We saw the girl! She let out a sharp, piercing cry, like a bird come back to an empty nest...(Line 470)." This metaphor reveals a couple of things about Antigone's beliefs and character. It reveals that, just like a bird, she is protective of her family. It also reveals that she is free-spirited like a bird, who gets to fly free. She did what she wanted instead of bowing down to Creon's rule. This is quite an important moment in her development due to the fact that it really shows off what she values most, and that she doesn't care what people think about it. But this theme/metaphor is also important because it shows that she's being hunted down by the followers of Creon, as if hunters were hunting a bird, yet she still holds her ground.

Antigone: The Bird

The metaphor in this passage describes Antigone as a bird who has lost her babies. This means that she is crying over her dead brother, and the Sentry sees her as a wailing animal. This emphasizes the fact that Antigone is very loyal to her family, and obviously very pasionate about everything she does. When the Sentry describes when they were bearing down on her like predators going for the kill, Antigone doesn't resist, which contributes to the fact that later in the story, Antigone accepts Creon's punishment without any resistance. Antigone seems very determined to disobey Creon's laws, and is willing to do anything to gie her brother the proper burial she thinks he deserves.

Sentry's Anitgone Description

In the portion of the passage when the Sentry returns to Creon, bringing the transgressor, Antigone. The governing mtaphor in the passage is that Antigone let our a sharp, peircing cry, like a bird returning to its nest. The fact that Antigone denied nothing made it all the more clear and reliable as to why Antigone would transgress. The comaparison to a bird represents that Antigone was absent mided before, and wanted to be able to care for her "baby", Polynices. When a baby is taken from a nest or harmed in any way, a bird lets out a cry because it wants to help its baby. Similarly, Antigone returned t the spot where she buried Polynices, and he was gone, so Antigone tried to find him and let out a peircing cry during her search. This is a significant moment for the rest of the book because it represents all the things that happen to Antigone over the course of this play. Antigone is then interrogated by Creon and sent to a death sentence. Antigone, although she does not want to die accepts death, and take herself to death by hanging herself. She decided that she was to remain absent minded aftr all, even though she tried to be a feminest.

- Rahul Verma

SCR Assignment (In-Class)

Examine the way that Sentry describes Antigone (lines 469-489), and respond to the following questions in a paragraph of at least 10 sentences: What is the governing metaphor in the passage? What does this metaphor reveal about Antigone’s character? Why is this moment significant to her character development and to the development of themes in the play?

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SCR 10-12-12/Sentry's Description of Antigone

The governing metaphor in this passage is, "like a bird come back to an empty nest, peering into its nest, and all the babies gone." This quote is saying that like a bird with all its babies gone, Antigone is the bird and Polynices is the babies. Antigone is very much like a bird in more ways than you would initially think from reading this quote. She is also like a bird because a mother bird is loyal to her babies just as Antigone is loyal to her brother. This passage reveals that Antigone's character is loyal and true to her family and to herself. This moment is significant to her character development because she finds out how much she really cares about Polynices and how loyal she is to her family. She realizes what she really cares for and just how much she cares for it. This moment is also important to the development of the themes in the play because it starts a whole avalanche in different themes throughout the book. One of the most important things it creates is that since she is caught, she is brought back to Creon, and Creon is very surprised because she is a woman. This is the theme that men were stronger, faster, and overall more important than women.

-John-Michael Osley

Homework Assignment

Short Constructed Response

In a paragraph of 8-12 sentences, respond to the following prompt. Be sure that you post your SCR to the blog to receive credit.

According to Aristotle, the aim of tragedy is to arouse pity and fear through an alteration in the status of the central character. He adds that, "pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man [or woman] like ourselves." Decide which character causes you to feel more pity and fear: Creon or Antigone. The argue why this character is more relatable. Which values or flaws does the character have that you find empathetic and why?