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courtneytucker06's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
ishouldbereading's review against another edition
dark
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
harleyrae's review against another edition
3.0
Once again another play for school. I did enjoy the play, i preferred Oedipus over this one though. I wish i could have scored it higher, but i'm just not really into reading a play, feel i get more form an actual story, something just always seems to be missing for me, plus i'd prefer to see it then read it. But other than that it was pretty good.
eva5000's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
rainmagiclplace's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
luv4eilish's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
kazie's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
informative
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
maydas's review against another edition
4.0
For my gender and sexuality literature class, about Antigone and her passion for death (part of the essay)
One of the main characters who is very passionate about her death is Antigone by Sophocles. Antigone was willing to die for the cause she was fighting for throughout the story. This willingness for death made her mission to bury her brother and to fulfill her duty to her family much more noble, in her eyes. One of the crucial scenes which shows how Antigone views death as a prize is when Ismene was facing the judgment in front of Kreon. Ismene wanted to take the blame and be punished by death alongside her sister. Antigone’s reaction to Ismene’s decision was rather harsher than we would expect. She opposed, demanded Ismene to not share her death and suggested that her death was enough (Sophocles, 2003, line 78). Here, her motive was not to protect her sister, but rather not to share the prize of fulfilling the duty to bury her brother. Her death is the result of her heroism and she does not want to share this prize. She sees death that comes before oneself’s time as a profit, because death is preferable than living among the evils (Sophocles, 2003, line 510). Additionally, she glorifies dying after fulfilling her duty to her brother by emphasizing how she will lie with her loving brother side by side in death forever (Sophocles, 2003, line 56). Unlike Kreon, Antigone is much closer to the Gods of the underworld than the Gods who are the protector of order and living, because her approach to the matter is that the time she will spend as dead is much greater than in life, thus it is better to please the Gods of the underworld. Her idealization of death is so prominent that even Chorus blames her as being a fool and in love with dying (Sophocles, 2003, line 63). Antigone’s passion for self-sacrifice does not only serve to the duty to her brother, but also the intention to stop the curse that is
bestowed upon her family, which is flawed by incest. By dying without bearing any child, she aims to put an end to her generation. Her involvement with death throughout the story, for instance, female duty of taking care of death in the family, her passion to die, being closer to the Gods of underworld even though she is still alive, her love being bigger toward death brother than her living sister, being imprisoned in a tomb while she is alive, and finally her suicide shows her close relation with death.
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Sophocles. (2003). Antigone (Greek tragedy in new translations). (C. Segal & R. Gibbons, Trans.). Oxford University Press.
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Gender and Sexuality in lit dersi için okudum. Keşke tiyatrosu yapılsa da biraz gidip sağlı sollu sahnedeki herkesin ölmesini izlesek.
One of the main characters who is very passionate about her death is Antigone by Sophocles. Antigone was willing to die for the cause she was fighting for throughout the story. This willingness for death made her mission to bury her brother and to fulfill her duty to her family much more noble, in her eyes. One of the crucial scenes which shows how Antigone views death as a prize is when Ismene was facing the judgment in front of Kreon. Ismene wanted to take the blame and be punished by death alongside her sister. Antigone’s reaction to Ismene’s decision was rather harsher than we would expect. She opposed, demanded Ismene to not share her death and suggested that her death was enough (Sophocles, 2003, line 78). Here, her motive was not to protect her sister, but rather not to share the prize of fulfilling the duty to bury her brother. Her death is the result of her heroism and she does not want to share this prize. She sees death that comes before oneself’s time as a profit, because death is preferable than living among the evils (Sophocles, 2003, line 510). Additionally, she glorifies dying after fulfilling her duty to her brother by emphasizing how she will lie with her loving brother side by side in death forever (Sophocles, 2003, line 56). Unlike Kreon, Antigone is much closer to the Gods of the underworld than the Gods who are the protector of order and living, because her approach to the matter is that the time she will spend as dead is much greater than in life, thus it is better to please the Gods of the underworld. Her idealization of death is so prominent that even Chorus blames her as being a fool and in love with dying (Sophocles, 2003, line 63). Antigone’s passion for self-sacrifice does not only serve to the duty to her brother, but also the intention to stop the curse that is
bestowed upon her family, which is flawed by incest. By dying without bearing any child, she aims to put an end to her generation. Her involvement with death throughout the story, for instance, female duty of taking care of death in the family, her passion to die, being closer to the Gods of underworld even though she is still alive, her love being bigger toward death brother than her living sister, being imprisoned in a tomb while she is alive, and finally her suicide shows her close relation with death.
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Sophocles. (2003). Antigone (Greek tragedy in new translations). (C. Segal & R. Gibbons, Trans.). Oxford University Press.
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Gender and Sexuality in lit dersi için okudum. Keşke tiyatrosu yapılsa da biraz gidip sağlı sollu sahnedeki herkesin ölmesini izlesek.