Read the excerpt below from Antigone by Sophocles and answer the question that follows.



ANTIGONE:
Most of them
have perished—Persephone has welcomed them
among the dead. I’m the last one, dying here
the most evil death by far, as I move down
before the time allotted for my life is done.



Which tone is revealed through Antigone’s lines?

optimistic
malicious
gloomy
jovial