Now, Antigone is a tragic drama. The drama starts off with two woman named Antigone and Ismene. They are apparently talking about their brothers who fought in battle, ironically the two brothers were in different sides of the battle, and adding more two the irony they both died by each others hand. Sadly, those who defy their own land (in this case one of the brothers) are charged with treason and cannot obtain a proper burial which is why the conversation of Antigone and Ismene has a lot of conflict. Now, in this scenario Antigone is Dionysis because she wants to give the brother who was defying his own land a proper burial, but this will cause chaos since giving a traitor an “illegal” burial is punishable by death. As for Ismene she is trying to convince Antigone from doing such nonsense, she is trying to control Antigone from getting herself killed which is why Ismene is Apollo. Now, when seeing this conversation and knowing this was a tragic drama, I foreshadowed that Antigone is going to be captured and killed since she did not heed the words of Ismene. I do believe Ismene is an existential situation since she is trying to find words on how to convince Antigone from burying her brother. Either way words do not convince Antigone and does whatever she pleases.
Now, after the conversation with Ismene and Antigone the drama sheds light on Creon. Creon at the moment is giving a speech about the war that has happened. Creon does mention the two brothers in which Antigone and Ismene were having a conversation on (the brothers name are Eteocles and Polyneices). As Creon stated he is going to give Eteocles the proper burial while Polyneices is not. There is a line that caught my eye which was “Such is my mind in the matter; never by me shall the wicked man have precedence in honor over the just.” (Lines 226 – 228). From what I can know from this line that Polyneices is man that has betrayed their kingdom and thus he dishonor will never go above of those who loyal. In my one of my college classes we pinned this line to example of Democrats and Republicans. Now, Democrats can say that we need to give health care to people who do not have it, but Republicans will argue that health care is good and all, but that it costs way too much. After Creon is done with his speech to his people we move on to the next scene where Creon obtains news from a Sentry.
To begin, the Sentry is a existential situation, the Sentry is trying to find the right words to inform Creon about the terrible news. Funny thing is that this Sentry is trying to talk to Creon in a proper manner which in the end does seem to fail. The Sentry tries to apologize to Creon for not delivering the news on time, stating that he does not have wings in his feet. Now since this is greek drama the gods were everything to the people of Greece. The Sentry used sort of a metaphor using the messenger of the Gods known as Hermes (who had wings on his feet) as a factor. The Sentry was Dionysus in this scenario since he is going to tell Creon some bad news and in this case Creon is Apollo.
Now, I do not want to spoil more of the drama since in the end a certain someone is killed, but Antigone is truly a good tragedy.
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