read the excerpts from \the royal house of th...

read the excerpts from \the royal house of thebes\ and \the story of a warrior queen.\ ismene weeping came from the palace to stand with her sister. \i helped do it,\ she said. but antigone would not have that. \she had no share in it,\ she told creon. and she bade her sister say no more. \your choice was to live,\ she said, \mine to die.\ -\the royal house of thebes\ when the roman soldiers burst in upon them, they found the great queen dead, with her daughters in her arms. she had poisoned both herself and them, rather than that they should fall again into the hands of the romans. -\the story of a warrior queen\ which archetype do the two passages have in common? the warrior the sage the villain the tragic heroine

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# Brief Explanations: In the first passage, Antigone chooses death for her principles. In the second, the warrior - queen poisons herself and her daughters to avoid capture. Both show tragic fates due to their strong - willed actions, fitting the tragic heroine archetype. # Answer: D. the tragic heroine