Antigone
What I found most interesting after reading Antigone is the title of the story itself. The actual character of Antigone plays such a small role. She is simply the oldest daughter of Oedipus, she doesn't have many lines and she isn’t a very exciting character. I speculate that it has something to do with the main message Sophocles was trying to send when he wrote the play. In some ways he is attempting to show cost of being callow opposed to moral. I also think it is very apparent that he is using the female archetype to expose Creons weaknesses throughout the play.
What I found most interesting after reading Antigone is the title of the story itself. The actual character of Antigone plays such a small role. She is simply the oldest daughter of Oedipus, she doesn't have many lines and she isn’t a very exciting character. I speculate that it has something to do with the main message Sophocles was trying to send when he wrote the play. In some ways he is attempting to show cost of being callow opposed to moral. I also think it is very apparent that he is using the female archetype to expose Creons weaknesses throughout the play.
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