Question

What do these lines from Sophocles's Antigone tell us about Antigone's character? ANTIGONE: And yet good hope is mine that I shall find A welcome from my sire, a welcome too, From thee, my mother, and my brother dear; From with these hands, I laved and decked your limbs In death, and poured libations on your grave. And last, my Polyneices, unto thee I paid due rites, and this my recompense! Yet am I justified in wisdom's eyes. For even had it been some child of mine, Or husband mouldering in death's decay, I had not wrought this deed despite the State. She places her family above everything else. She's proud of her family's name and history. She fondly remembers burying her loved ones. She wants a noble death as her family members had. She's sad that she'll never have a husband or child. NextReset

Answer 1

I would say the answer is that she places her family above everything else. That was her downfall in the end because she decided to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial.
B is incorrect because why would she be proud of her family - her father Oedipus killed his father and married his own mother, and her brothers killed each other; C is incorrect because who is happy when they think about burying their loved ones?; D is incorrect because her family members didn't have noble deaths - her mother killed herself, father blinded himself, sister killed herself, and brothers killed each other; E is incorrect because she never said that, she merely said that if it were her child or husband, she'd do the same thing. 

Answer 2

Answer:

I believe it's A.

Explanation:

It's literally the whole point of the play. She places her family first in EVERYTHING. It's her fatal flaw that leads to her death and downfall.