Antigone
Examples of Allusion
What are some examples of allusion used throughout the play?
What are some examples of allusion used throughout the play?
Greek Mythology:
Tantalos and Niobe
“How often I have heard the story of Niobe, Tantalos’ wretched daughter, how the stone clung fast about her, ivy-close: and they say the rain falls endlessly and sifting soft snow; her tears never done. I feel the loneliness of her death in mine.”
Danae
“All Danae’s beauty was locked away in a brazen cell where sunlight could not come: A small room, still as any grave, enclosed her. Yet she was a princess too, and Zeus in a rain of gold poured love upon her.”
Persephone
“O tomb, vaulted bride-bed in eternal rock, soon I shall be with my own again where Persephone welcomes the thin ghosts underground.”
Antigone