How does Creon decide to execute Antigone?

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Question restatement: The prompt asks how Creon decides to execute Antigone, given the set of answer choices.
Option 1: 'Stone her to death' — This would involve a public, corporal punishment by stoning. In the play, Creon does not order Antigone to be stoned; his decree against her is enforced differently. Therefore, this option describes a punishment that does not align with Creon’s actual method.
Option 2: 'Behead her' — Decapitation is not the method Creon uses for Antigone. The tragedy centers on a harsher, more concealed form of punishment that ties into his rigid decree about burial and reverence for state law, rather than execution by beheading.
Option 3: 'Throw her from a cliff' — This is not the fate prescribed by Creon for Antigone in the story. There is no scene where she is cast from a cliff as a punishment from the king.
Option 4: 'Lock her in a rocky vault' — This matches the canonical punishment decreed by Creon: Antigone is to be entombed alive in a rocky vault (a tomb) as punishment for defying his edict. The rocky vault imagery aligns with the idea of sealing her away rather than killing her by other means.
Underlying reasoning: The story focuses on Creon’s insistence on enforcing state law, sometimes at odds with divine law and familial ties. His method for Antigone emphasizes burial by entombment in a tomb rather than outright killing on the spot, which makes the rocky vault option the one that fits the text.
In summary, the other options describe forms of punishment (stoning, beheading, cliff-throwing) that do not occur in the narrative, whereas the rocky vault option accurately reflects Creon’s chosen method of punishment for Antigone.

How does Creon decide to execute Antigone?

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