Question

10. Eurydice enters the play's action only at its end. Why does Sophocles include her death?

A. To suggest how severely those who disobey the gods will be punished


B. To create sympathy in the audience for a mother’s sorrow


C. To clarify the events that led to Haimon’s death


D. To convey the family members’ love for each other



11. As he is led into the building at the end of the play, on what does Creon blame his suffering?


A. On the curse that affects Oedipus’s house "generation after generation"


B. On his fear of anarchy and "crime kept in the dark"


C. On a prophet who speaks of a house "full of men and women weeping"


D. On a god that has driven him "headlong" toward doom

Answer 1

A. To suggest how severely those who disobey the gods will be punished

Step-by-step explanation:

Eurydice is Creon's wife and her death is a way of making Creontes suffer for having disobeyed the order of the gods. That's because Creon, when he became the king of Thebes, became an authoritarian and petty man, he was against divine law when he prohibited Polyneices from being buried by Antigone and even decreed her death when she disobeyed. In the face of Antigone's death, Euridice kills herself and that death falls on Creon as a divine punishment.