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Considering Antigone's death was for naught, as in the end she has no valid reason for her defiance (Creon actually had good arguments), could one say that Anouilh's Antigone was proto-absurdist?

Anouilh wrote his Antigone a few years before Camus wrote any of his books about absurdism.

Can we discuss Antigone? What does /lit/ think about it? Has anyone read Zizek's version that came out this year?

I'm interested because I've read both Sophocles' and Anouilh's version.

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Hey /lit/ this si my first time posting so I apologize if I am breaking any unwritten rules here. I'm in my grade 11 year in the the IB program and one of our assessments is to write a 1500 word "world literature" paper on a translated work we have studied this year. I have chose to write mine on the Sophoclesian play "Antigone". I have almost no idea on atopic and so if anyone here has read or studied this play I could use some advice. Our topic is supposed to relate a literary feature utilised by the author to it's purpose throughout the work. Thank you in advance

What are /lit/'s thoughts on Antigone?

Just saw it today, for the first time. (Slowpoke)

The true irony of the play is that had Antigone not followed the Moral Higher Law (of the gods), life would've been better: She would've married Haimon, and her life wouldn't have been racked with chaos. A central theme, then, is defying comfort for the sake of good.

Yet, she had to follow the High Moral Law: not following it would have produce the Anarchy that Creon feared, a Moral anarchy.

Moreover, its an interesting catalogue of the Greek Attitude about the State. It was seen as a holder of moral value; as such, Polyneices was seen as immoral because he was in a war against the state. War, then, was seen through a moralistic lense.

first i was like "oh lawd what did my dumbass brother do again there" but then i was like "hell policeofficer stay out of this, this is our business". in the end everything was just too retarded, ya know?!

Little Summary: Antigone wants her sister, Ismene, to bury the body of their brother who was a traitor to the land. King Creon forbids anyone to bury the body, but Antigone decides to do it secretly but Ismene refuses. However Antigone gets caught, and Ismene now feels sorry and wants to confess and say she did it even though she didn’t.

If you were Zeus/God would you have redemption for Ismene or send her to hell because she didn’t help. Should she be forgiven for not burying her brother? Your Thoughts?

Hey /lit/ can you help me clear something up?

here's a quote from the "Antigone"

The chorus says humans are

Clever beyond all dreams
the inventive craft that he was
which may drive him one time or another to well or ill

English test tomorrow on Antigone, have to write an essay on theme, identification of the tragic hero, or conflict.

I was going to go with how pride (hubris) in the characters lead to their downfall (aka. Creon and Antigone)

Or maybe an identification of the tragic hero (in my case I say Creon).

TL;DR: English test. Essay on Antigone. Wat do?

i need free e-Books. there was a sweetass 4-shared with thousands but it has since disappeared. please halp.

also, Ismene wins, Antigone/Creon are rittards. Discuss.