Analyze universal literary themes, character motivation, and the classic conflict between personal moral duty and state authority in world drama.
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Understand the dramatic situation and distinguish a character's belief from the narrator's judgment.
A theme is a developed idea about conflict, not a one-word topic such as justice.
Compare how another character might respond to the same conflict and support the comparison with text.
Practice adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. Its English wording is adapted for this worksheet, rather than authenticated to a single translation; compare the reference translation.
Source reference: Antigone, reference translation by Francis Storr.
CREON: And yet you dared to overstep these laws?
ANTIGONE: Yes, for it was not Zeus who proclaimed that edict to me, nor did Justice who dwells with the gods below decree such laws for mortals. Nor did I think that your human proclamations possessed such sovereign power as to supersede the unwritten, immutable laws of heaven.
They live not today or yesterday, but forever, and no mortal knows whence they first appeared. I would not, out of fear of any man's arrogant pride, incur the wrath of the gods. Die I must, even without your decree; and if I die before my time, I count that a gain. For whoever lives in sorrow as deep as mine, how does she not reap profit in death?
Which UNIVERSAL THEME is most profoundly developed through Antigone's defiant declaration to King Creon?
Answer: B. Antigone explicitly contrasts Creon's temporary mortal decree with the eternal, unwritten laws of divine justice, illustrating the universal theme of individual moral conscience resisting state oppression.
Intended curriculum references: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 · CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6. These references describe learning goals; they are not endorsements.
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