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Antigone
Author:
Sophocles
Language:
EN
Type:
Drama
Publish year:
441
In the third and final installment of Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone moves on from the death of her father, Oedipus, and returns to Thebes in hopes of aiding her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, to defeat a prophecy that predicts they will *** each other in battle.

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  • tigermilk

    tigermilk (100)

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    antigone isn't really about her aiding her brothers to defeat a prophecy as such, because they're already dead when the parados opens. it's more about the battle between loyalty to the city state and loyalty to family. it's quite a paradoxical situation because the ancient greeks believed that the oikos (family) and polis (city state) depended on the other to remain harmonious and the collapse of either would be a huge tragedy. the play is more concerned with antigone's choice to bury her brother who was fighting against thebes, against the wishes of the king, her uncle creon who had decreed that nobody was to bury him (the religious aspect of burial is more important to the actual physical side of it according to the ancient greeks) despite burying his nephew who fought for thebes. consquently, antigone is punished, and the differences in ideology and how it affects the royal family is the real bedrock of the play's plot.

    i studied this last year for college, and it's a play i adore so i apologise if i'm making it too technical x-)
    July 29th, 2012 at 11:42am
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