/lit/ - Literature

>>10354377

Antigone explains before her uncle and the council of elders that she, too, is aware of the killings caused by the U.S. military activity, that both the Soviet Union and the U.S., during the cold war, supported fanatics and murderers that torn the land apart. She states that she know that the many clans of religious fanatic and warlords were, indeed, financed by the Americans, among others, and that this hordes of assassins did brought much suffering to the people. She also mentions that she never meant to accept the culture of other nations and simply gave up on her own culture, but that she knew that education was one of the greatest gifts any human being deserved to receive and that good deeds could come from the hands of anyone. She explains that the U.S. is guilty of atrocities, but that many good people came from there to actually help the people of Afghanistan to prosper, and that she preferred to thing on the level of individuals, not on the level of populations or nations. She states that she was extremely grateful to her teachers and that she knew that one of the greatest things she could to was to help to expand education thorough the country. She explains that Allah would be pleased to see human beings, his beloved creations, improving themselves, that he would not offer to human beings their brains and souls if he not intended to see them perfecting themselves, and etc, etc, etc. She dosent want to abanond the Islamic faith or the healthy and beautiful cultural elements of Afghanistan, but she knows that there is an ocean of knowledge out there that every boy and girl had the right to know and benefit from.

The council of elders decides against the will of Antigone/Malala’s uncle, and allow the construction of the school. They are weary of death, war and killing, and are surprised by the healthy progress that many new institutions are achieving.

FROM THIS POINT ON I DON’T KNOW EXACLTY HOW TO PROCEED

Atigone/Malala starts building the school and giving classes. Her uncle, however, cannot forget his hate and forgive the westerners, and in his mind education is just a form of indoctrination that would eventually corrode the family and culture of the Afghans (this is what he tells himself, yet his main motive is the rage he feels for the killers of his beloved ones).

I have some new ideas for the next movements:

>>10354391

a) Antigone’s uncle has an adopted son who likes her, who is himself interest in the progress and reconstruction of the country and who is in love with the girl.

b) When a former Taliban warrior, famous for his victories against U.S. soldiers and former corrupt politicians and warlords asks Antigone’s uncle for shelter for himself and his soldiers, he is allowed to stay in the rural city (against the wishes of some of the elders, but with support of others). Antigone/Malala’s uncle speaks to him about his niece and asks him if he could not say to the girl what he saw, what he suffered, how many corrupt men he killed (men who raped young girls and treated the people like vassals before the Taliban invasion)*. He asks for his help in shutting down the school and helping to change the girls mind, to make her see that she is betraying her people, and that the Taliban - although they had distorted minds among them - were in essence defenders of the rightful ways of living a civilized and god-loving way of life.

c)The Taliban warrior takes control of the city and orders Antigone to shut down the school. She refuses. Then the Taliban warrior decides to establish a Sharia tribunal, accusing Antigone of crimes that are punishable by death, but that she can get rid of the accusations if she refuses to continue acting as a teacher, dress the burka and honor Allah in the way her ancestors did. She refuses. The Taliban warrior then sends Antigone/Malala to prison to think on her possible fate, giving her time to think and repent. By now Malala’s uncle is nervous, thinking that the Taliban warrior is going too far, and asking him to back down. He says that he cannot do such a thing, and that he must be strong for both of them, because he knows that Antigone’s uncle is letting his personal feelings get in the way.

I don’t know exactly how to end the play. I was thinking that the U.S. might have been observing this small branch of the Taliban and waiting the moment to attack. They eventually do so, and the Taliban warrior and chief, thinking that Malala/Antigone was the one responsible for betray them and deliver them to the authorities, decides to kill her in front of the American soldiers, to make them realize what they have done to the land. He indeed shots Malala before being killed by the U.S. soldiers.

>>10354398

Seeing all of this, Antigone/Malala’s uncle is desperate, but things only get worse. His adopted son, not capable of witnessing any more deaths, with old war scars and phobias bursting to the surface of his psyche, with Malala on his arms, witnessing her last words and her death, takes a gun and shots himself in a suicidal frenzy. All of that happens before the eyes of the Antigone/Malala’s uncle.

The last image of the play is of the American soldiers trying to support the old man who can hardly walk and stand, as if in a delirium after having seen the death of his son and niece. The American soldiers try to comfort him, but he just says he's going to leave, that he will isolate himself in the desert to die (he doesn’t even show any hate for the soldiers, he cannot see, in his pain and shock, that this man that are offering their hands and support to him are members of the party of the enemies he hated so much just a few hours ago).

This is the plot (in raw and initial form) of the piece that I intend to write.

>>10354410

*Note that the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, for example, was a fanatic, a cruel man in several ways, but also very ethic (in his twisted form of ethics). He was a man of distorted principles, but who did not break them and did not corrupt himself. In a strange way one can say that he was more courageous, rightful and brave than most politicians of the world, although his personal superstitions, beliefs and ethics were repulsive. He was lunatic with moral.

For example, see this (from Wikipedia):

Mullah Omar started his movement with less than 50 armed madrassah students, known simply as the Taliban (Persian word for 'students'). His recruits came from madrassas in Afghanistan and from the Afghan refugee camps across the border in Pakistan. They fought against the rampant corruption that had emerged in the civil war period and were initially welcomed by Afghans weary of warlord rule. Apparently, Omar became sickened by the abusive raping of children by warlords and turned against their authority in the mountainous country of Afghanistan from 1994 onwards.[39]
The practice of bacha bazi by warlords was one of the key factors in Mullah Omar mobilizing the Taliban.[40] Reportedly, in early 1994, Omar led 30 men armed with 16 rifles to free two young girls who had been kidnapped and raped by a warlord, hanging him from a tank gun barrel.[41] Another instance arose when in 1994, a few months before the Taliban took control of Kandahar, two militia commanders confronted each other over a young boy whom they both wanted to sodomize. In the ensuing fight, Omar's group freed the boy; appeals soon flooded in for Omar to intercede in other disputes.
And:

In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time.[57] The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.

>>10354377

tl;dr

>>10354377

bump

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bump2

>>10354377

nice poster

I haven't read your post.
You should be able to see if your ideas are stupid or great. If you can't you're lost.

>>10356708

It is not so much the idea as a whole that afflicts me, the germ of the idea of the tragedy seems good to me.

All I think is that obvious possibilities of how to improve the structure of the whole may be veiled in my eyes, but crystal clear to other Anons.

In addition, I believe that many authors sometimes doubt their ideas and the topics they have chosen to write (and yet many of these ideas prove to be of interest to the public in the future).