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Antigone by Sophocles: The Prologue

Question 5 • SS - TX-English II B

What is the goal of the protagonist?

Answer
A
to bury Polyneices
B
to overthrow Creon
C
to frame Isemene
D
to bury Eteocles

Explanation

In Sophocles’ Antigone, the protagonist’s central goal is to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial. Creon has forbidden it, but Antigone believes honoring her brother and the gods’ burial customs is more important than obeying that decree. The correct choice is “to bury Polyneices.”

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