Analysis Of Antigone

Interpreting Antigone Analysis

In the story of Antigone, the way the author describes characters is very success, especially Creon and Antigone. Antigone is definitely a feminist hero in the story, who persist in morality, and fearless to the power of the king. Moreover, on the way to grotto, there were several internal monologues that she never showed to others. "You see me, you people of my country/as I set out on my last road of all,/looking for the last time on this light of this sun.../though I have known nothing of marriage songs/nor chant that brings the bride to bed./My husband is to be the Lord of Death."(Sophocles 1243) Though the foreshadowing, we can see that the desire of living insides of her that she is not just a hero, but a

On the other hand, he is not a villain. Firstly, there’s reason for his prohibition, Polyneices did betray the country, the problem is that Greek have different point of view. Besides, from his regrets in the end of the story, we can see that he still cares about his family, not truly hardhearted. Even though his order is against the god, but he didn’t show anything disrespectful to the god. If he didn’t respect the god, he wouldn’t fear about the prophecy. However, I believe that the author did very well on building these two characters. In terms of psychoanalysis, the superego controls Antigone because in the story, Antigone follows her own morals and obeys the god laws. Antigone believes that following the god laws beyond everything in her life, the reason of her miserable life is all because of her family transgressed the immortal unrecorded laws of god. She has mentioned that how powerful god is, “It was not god’s proclamation that final justice that rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, king, was strong, but all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of god. They are not merely: they were, and shall be, operative for ever, beyond man utterly.”(Sophocles 1238) In this quote, Antigone states that

Every character in the story shows their real emotions about their position and life. After I read the story, the storyline is such powerful even after days, it still leaving a strong impact in my mind. Every character has their different point of view of justice, but in my eyes, I believe they all did the right thing. Creon believes that Polyneices is a traitor to his own country, does not deserve a proper burial. On the other side, Antigone believes Polyneices did what he supposed to do; it was his right to have the throne of Thebes. Also, she believes that every dead man deserves to have a proper burial, regardless what one had done in its life. In my opinion, Antigone could have changed her destiny. When I was in china, I have studied a lot of feminist heroes who changed their own fate. For example, Huamulan is one of the feminist heroes. She took the place of her father and joined the army because her father was really old and she does not want him to suffer from the pain. Many years later, the battle was over. In view of her military exploit, the Khan of Northern dynasty offered Mulan a high official position, but she turned down the position to return to her family. She made up herself after coming back home. When her former comrades visited her at home, they were shocked to see her dressed as a woman. I don’t believe in fate, it does not matter how terrible the condition