Question

Sophocles intertwines the themes of death and marriage in Antigone. Which two pairs of lines in this excerpt from the play best bring out the correlation of death and marriage?

Answer 1

No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea,

'Tis Death I wed.

Answer 2

Question

Sophocles intertwines the themes of death and marriage in Antigone. Which two pairs of lines in this excerpt from the play best bring out the correlation of death and marriage? You can pick only 2.

(Friends, countrymen, my last farewell I make;

My journey's done.)

(One last fond, lingering, longing look I take

At the bright sun.)

(For Death who puts to sleep both young and old

Hales my young life,)

(And beckons me to Acheron's dark fold,

An unwed wife.)

(No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea,

'Tis Death I wed.)