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Antigone

Sophocles

3.63 AVERAGE

cwarman17's review against another edition

4.0

sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mcp2002's review against another edition

4.0

reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hess000's review against another edition

5.0

"Antigone" is a tragedy written around 442 BCE, by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles.While it was written before two other plays by Sophocles, it chronologically comes after the stories in "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus," and it starts up where the story of Aeschylus "Seven Against Thebes" ends. It deals with the burial of Antigone's brother, Polynices, in defiance of Creon and the State laws, and the tragic consequences of her act of rebellion.

lilith89ibz's review against another edition

5.0

Well, one thing you can always expect from Greek tragedies is that there will be at least two characters creating problems on purpose, usually more. This was quite devastating.

I feel Sophocles deliberately misrepresented Antigone to make a point, but I still ended up siding with her. Creon's position, for all his talk of doing this to keep the peace, is at the end of the day about staying in power. Yes, he's miserable. But if push comes to shove he'll actually have Antigone put to death, and I doubt that has anything to with the common good, but with keeping up appearances, because when you're in power you have to follow through on your threats. Then again, it was entirely his idea to go against common religious practices in the first place, so he got himself into this mess. Unsurprisingly, it never occurs to Kings that the solution to 99% of their problems is to step down and just... be a person who doesn't have to make these choices. Find me a monarch who was ever happy.

Antigone goes, perhaps, a little overboard with her convictions, but at least she's got some, unlike her uncle. I can't say I blame her for not wanting to live in this kind of world anymore.