1. For Your Loyalty: A Memorial
Antigone’s final words speak to her loyalty:
“You will remember the things I suffer, and at what men’s hands, because I would not transgress the laws of heaven (4: 78-80)

2. Create a Memorial Create a memorial for the character, Antigone.
Poem
A song
A eulogy
Artwork (no stick figures)
Whatever mode you choose, your memorial should reflect an understanding of this “last unhappy daughter of a line of Kings” (Scene 4, lines 76-77).
Will have rubric
Must include a Sophocles “truism” (theme) on the artwork
Must explain in written format:
the memorial that you created and why you chose it
a clear understanding of why Antigone is deserving of this memorial
Include a specific scene from the play showing her loyalty

3. Sophocles’ Truisms
Sophocles’ play, Antigone, contains many words of wisdom or “truisms” (suggest universal meaning). Below are the themes (“truisms”) and the scene:line number where the text is found.
“Reason is God’s crowning gift to man” (3:52)
“Must not any son value his father’s fortune as his father does his?” (3:71-72)
“The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach” (3:91)
“A good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil” (5:34-35)
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods.”