1. For this assigned portion of the play (the Prologue, Parodos and Scene 1, to Ode 1), write a one paragraph summary, including something on setting, plot and major characters.

2. Take a speech by one of the characters, and analyze it for theme. That is, find an important speech (whether by Antigone, Creon, or Chorus). Then quote it, and explain it in a good paragraph. Think of going abstract and using the quote to suggest Sophocles' theme here.

answer: to inform

explanation: the red death is an exciting passage, but also in some ways scary, so it is not to amuse. the red death is far in the past, so it is not to warn.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

definition was not one of the four methods