Antigone

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Summary: antigone
Review: I had a positive response to the book Antigone because of the fact that some good life lessons were included in the story. I didn't really understand all the words of the story because it was one of those old stories written back in the olden days.
Sophocles wrote a good story and added along a couple of life lessons in there that we teenagers would understand because Antigone was around our age and made the same mistakes that we do. The main thing with Antigone was that when she made a mistake, she wanted everyone to know that she did it, and no one else could take the blame for her. She was too prideful and she thought that she was the best when she had done wrong things. When she was about to meet her fate, the words she quoted were "I know I would die but pity me anyway." She doesn't even care that she is going to die. While I was reading this book, I thought Antigone had the most pride I have ever read or seen being displayed.
From this book I have personally learned that I will never try to show as much pride as Antigone. Actually the main downfall for every body in the book and in real life is pride. The second lesson is to get wisdom before we die. The last six lines in the chorus on page 52 say, "Teach men wisdom in age, at last." That is saying that we need to gain or get wisdom before the end of life.
I would recommend this book to others because even though the words are hard to understand, the book packs a lot of life lessons. I thought this book was going to be boring, but getting in our discussion groups and answering questions, hearing everyone's opinion kind of woke me up and got me interested in this book.

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Summary: Antigone Review
Review: I read Sophocles' book, antigone. At first, I really hated it beacause i couldn't understand what was being said. But as I read it over and over and over again, I began to understand it a little better, and I actually liked the plot of the book. I would not recommend this book if you have a hard time understanding difficult translations.
I think that there were many points that Sophocles was trying to get across in this play. One of them was that you should obey the gods over the king since they were a higher form of authority. What happened was that Antigone wanted to bury her brother, Polynices, out of respect no matter what wrong he did. But Creon differs in opinion. He says that since Polynices was a traitor, his body was to be left unburied and unmourned. But Antigone ended up still burying her brother because that was what she felt the gods wanted her to do.
Another point that he was probably trying to make was that he felt women shouldn't have been treated as low as they were. He was even taking risks writing a play with a woman as the main character because back then, women were considered very low class. They were not even allowed to be in plays.
I think that Sophocles was also trying to make the point that we should not be prideful. The Greek word for pride is "hubris". Antigone and Creon had so much pride that it actually led to the death of most of their family, including Antigone.
There were a couple of life lessons to be learned in this play. One of them is to obey your God over earthly authorities because all men are sinfuland their laws aren't always right. Another one of them was that you should not be prideful. As I said before, Antigone and Creon had so much pride that it led to the death of most of their family, including Antigone.

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Summary: Antigone in Mr P's Class
Review: I think Antigone the play by Sophocles is important for people to read today. This play is beneficial to the modern day reader because it shows affection, love, and loyalty and what happens when these go wrong. These emotions and traits were very important to Sophocles. Antigone the title character of the story is only one of the main characters. The play centers around her and her extended family. Creon, the evil king, is also Antigone's uncle, (and Great Uncle, this is a very entangled family) he has ordered that one of Antigone's two brothers is not be buried because he betrayed his City State (ie Country) because he went to the neighboring city state and fought for the enemy. Ultimately being killed by his brother during a battle and by wounding the other brother sufficiently that they both ended up dead. These were just the first deaths in the family. The evil uncle ends up killing most of the family. The family members show how dysfunctional a family can be both in the ancient world and we can relate this to life today. In today's world having an appreciation for the affection, love and loyalty shown in the play "Antigone" by the sisters is a good lesson for reader's today. Finally, an understanding of the importance of having good family relationships to prevent dysfunctionality along with an understanding of duty to Country can a benefit to the modern reader.

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Summary: Antigone in Mr P's Class
Review: I think Antigone the play by Sophocles is important for people to read today. This play is beneficial to the modern day reader because it shows affection, love, and loyalty and what happens when these go wrong. These emotions and traits were very important to Sophocles. Antigone the title character of the story is only one of the main characters. The play centers around her and her extended family. Creon, the evil king, is also Antigone's uncle, (and Great Uncle, this is a very entangled family) he has ordered that one of Antigone's two brothers is not be buried because he betrayed his City State (ie Country) because he went to the neighboring city state and fought for the enemy. Ultimately being killed by his brother during a battle and by wounding the other brother sufficiently that they both ended up dead. These were just the first deaths in the family. The evil uncle ends up killing most of the family. The family members show how dysfunctional a family can be both in the ancient world and we can relate this to life today. In today's world having an appreciation for the affection, love and loyalty shown in the play "Antigone" by the sisters is a good lesson for reader's today. Finally, an understanding of the importance of having good family relationships to prevent dysfunctionality along with an understanding of duty to Country can a benefit to the modern reader.

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Summary: Antigone-Its pronounced Ant-ig-oh-nee!
Review: I think that reading this book would be a positive experience for anyone who can understand it. It has a couple of good morals it communicates to the reader, and it has some hidden points that the reader is allowed to decipher.
Sophocles was trying to get across several points in this play. Firstly, in the time of this play being written, women were subjugated and considered sub-class citizens. Throughout the play, though, the main character and the play's namesake, Antigone(An-tig-oh-nee), who is a woman, fights for her right to act out against the orders of Creon(Kree-on), the king of her home city of Thebes. Creon signifies the typical male ruler at that time. He is domineering, overbearing, and a power hungry chauvinist who cannot stand to be wrong under any circumstances. He clashes with Antigone over the burial of her brother Polynices, who fought her other brother for control of the city. In anger over having his orders defied, let alone by a woman, Creon has Antigone locked in a sort of makeshift dungeon, wherein she eventually hangs herself. It seems throughout the play that the gods are on the side of Antigone, such as when they send a dust storm to bury Polynices, but Creon doggedly pursues his own interests and desires through it all. Thus, the reader is led to side with Antigone from the very beginning, cheering for the heroine, an unusual choice for a play in Sophocles' time.
However, there are some secondary points being communicated here. For one thing, the "hubris" or pride of Creon and Antigone eventually leads to the death of not only Antigone, but also Haemon, Creon's son, and Creon's wife. This illustrates the point that pride not only affects us, but those who we come into contact with and are around us. Also, Antigone chooses to go with not only her gut, but also with the gods, and go against the government. I believe that this is Sophocles' way of communicating to us that though the government can be flawed, especially when it's choices are fundamentally and morally wrong, taking a stand against it may be costly, as it is to Antigone in the play.
While reading this play, I learned mostly about the effects of pride on a person's life. The Bible says that "Pride goeth before a fall", but what is not said is that the fall will be just of the person who has pride. As an example, Haemon did not have a strong issue with pride, but he suffered because of the stubbornness of Antigone and his father, Creon. Creon's wife is hardly mentioned throughout the play, and never seems to come in contact with Antigone, but her life is ended by the squabble as well. Antigone's sister, Ismene(Iss-may-nee) also suffers, because she loses her last sibling due to the rivalry.
I would recommend this reading to other readers, but I would warn that the poetry is extremely difficult to understand, and that if they have trouble with Shakespeare or other older poets, then they might not want to read this, or at least get the Cliff's Notes.

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Summary: The piece that made me feel like sleeping
Review: I think that the over all reading of Antigone was not positive and i really did not comprehend it. What i did understand was not possitive.The story was verry tragic and seemed to loose its edge at times. Now maybe because i am a young reader i did not find it intresting but it did have some good scenes.
Sophocles's main Purpose in Writeing was to entertain the greek Gods. The Gods were a Verry big Obsession back then.
One thing i did learn however was that i must never take my rights in this country as a woman for granted. Back then women did not have the same rights we have today. I can say watever i want and voice my opinion without being persecuted. Back then women were killed for less then that and shown little respect.I think that being greatful for my country, freedom, and rights is deffinatly sometihng i learned to do from the reading.
I would not reccomend this book to anyone through the ages of 6-16 because i thought it was verry boreing and it wasnt intresting to the young reader. The dialog beated around the bush and it wasnt entertaining to me let alone a Greek God.Now if they made a modern day version of "Antigone" i think that the book would attract more young readers and have a much more powerful impact. so if you are a fan of Sophocles or are just plan bored then pick up this book. if not put it back on the shelf!

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Summary: A Critique of Antigone by: Sophocles.
Review: I think that this story was a great story. Not only is it great, but it is a different kind of Literature than we are used to nowadays. Although this may be a great book, I have to admit that it was a little hard to understand and follow. This is the reason I didn't think it deserved and outstanding rating. When I am reading, I want to be able to understand all of the different ideas the author is trying to get across. I didn't understand it to the fullest extent, and therefore I didn't get the full idea of all the benefits of the historical insights, political insights, and the way people thought in the times of this particular play.

I think that the point of this story is that Sophocles was trying to almost be rebellious and trying to shock the Greeks by even making a play like this. In Greek times, it was odd to have a woman to be the main character of the play. Women in ancient Greek times were not highly looked upon by the men. Creon you can tell is one of the people who believe in this way of life. I also think that Sophocles wanted to show really of how things happen back then. All the political views that Creon played and the role of a man in power back in those days is something that he might have felt that he needed to show.
When Creon and Antigone are talking one time, when he they are deciding what they are going to do with Antigone, he says that no woman will order him. This is the way a lot of people thought in those days and Sophocles is showing how things were back then.

I have learned so much from reading this book. I wouldn't say that I learned anything about Sophocles, because anything that I think he is saying, is of course pure speculation. Yet, I learned that things were definitely different back then. We think everything is so unfair and take a lot of things for granted, but we have it easy. When someone says something or has on opinion about something, they can go ahead and say it without being afraid of getting in trouble for it. When a woman wants to go get a job, nobody thinks anything about it, but if a woman back then did that it would be like "WOAH- what in the world is she thinking" and would be refused a job probably. We have it easy and I now realize that.

I would recommend this play to anybody who likes ay Ancient Greek plays, or even someone that likes Shakespeare, because it is written in the same "language." I would not however recommend this play to someone who doesn't like reading plays or anything of the sort. It will be hard to follow for someone that doesn't like plays, but for anyone who does, you will simply love it (that however, is not a guarantee).

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Summary: Antigone: Sophocles Greatest
Review: I thought that Antigone was a really great script and was really appealing to me and probably a lot of other readers too. It was a great story about after Oedipus Rex basically killed himself and his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices fought over who would be the next ruler of Thebes and eventually killed each other and that Oedipus' daughters, Antigone and Ismene are now fighting about the burial of Polynices.
Sophocles wanted to have a woman who was the main character and a man who was the complete opposite of Antigone. Since the women were not allowed to participate in the plays and mostly anything, Sophocles wanted to change all that for the better. The people that you meet in the play are: Antigone, Creon, Ismene, Haemon, and Tiresias. The main reason for Sophocles writing this is for a woman to take the part as a headmaster of the main purpose of the play.
I have read that you should respect your elders and submit to those in authority as it says in Romans 13:4-7. Those women in Antigone were greatly disrespected in that time and the men were looked up to. The ruler of Thebes in Antigone now is Oedipus' mother (and wife's) brother Creon, and Creon does not want his son Haemon to marry Antigone because she buried her brother and that was against Creon's law, but the non-burial was also a disrespect for the gods of Greece. Antigone, for her crime was sentenced by Creon to death and the disrespect of all the people and the charge not to marry his son Haemon. After Haemon heared about the sentencing of Antigone, he went away and killed himself. Creon was a really hard-headed, cold-blooded man who took orders from only one person, himself, there was a few people who tried to talk him out of it like the Senators or a blind man named Tiresias and even one of the Sentinels tried to talk to him, but he would not listen to any one of them at all, he simply dismissed that until Haemon killed himself and he would listen then after his own son died because of something he did to the one he loved the most.
I would defiantly recommend this script to anyone who loves tragedy or one who likes the Ancient Greeks. The story is the greatest of all Sophocles plays in my mind and I think people out there would love it, I read it over and over again, I could not put it down it was so good. In conclusion, I would like to say that this script was excellent and I will still read this script twenty years from now and until I die, maybe.

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Summary: My thoughts of Antigone
Review: I was assigned to read one of the remaining seven plays of the writer Sophocles, Antigone. When I first began to read it, I did not find it enjoyable. It was originally written in Greek and then translated to English as well as Sir George Young was able to convert. The story was amazing but the words of the play made it difficult to understand. If you have a hard time keeping your mind focused while reading a book, then I would not recommend this play for your reading material. However, if you enjoy Greek plays and such, then you would take pleasure in Antigone.

As I said, I had a difficult time at the beginning enjoying what I was reading. It was not until I realized how strongly Antigone must have felt about her family that I looked up to her and wanted to continue reading to see what would happen. Although Creon had high power and was against Antigone's motives, she continued with what she felt was right. I also grew an unfavorable passion against Creon as the story went on. He seemed to only think of himself and want everyone to follow his rules. The world revolved around him. By the end of the play, I was disappointed and hoped there was a sequel. So although the play was difficult to comprehend at times I decided to give it a three star, because Sophocles was an amazing writer; and I'm sure many people would enjoy his work.

My thoughts on what Sophocles' main point was for writing Antigone has changed quite a few times. My first thought was that it was to teach the reader life lessons. An example of this is how you need to stick with your family through thick and thin and not be ashamed of them. To not change your beliefs or thoughts because of someone else but to do what you feel is right from the beginning. I have not changed my opinion on that completely, but after a class discussion, someone brought up a good point that I also think could be Sophocles' reason. Back when Sophocles wrote the play Antigone, women were not thought of highly. When it came to plays not many women had lead roles, if they were in the play at all. I think he was also trying to get the audiences attention by having something unusual be apart of his work.

Sophocles hit on a lot of situations that people struggle in, even though he may not have meant to. People in the world these days are ashamed of their families. Whether it is because of what they look like, or how they act, they don't take honor in their family. Antigone took such honor in her family that even though it was against the law, she gave respect back to her deceased brother. She faced the consequences, but not once did she say she was sorry for what she had done. Another thing that Sophocles made a point on was not thinking only of yourself. The character Creon was a self-centered person who wanted people to follow his way and no other. He even thought his laws and opinions higher than the gods.

I would recommend this play to anyone who does not have a hard time concentrating on what you read. Even if you do have a hard time keeping your mind from wandering, this is still a good story to read. It just may take you a little longer to understand it all.

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Summary: Critiquing The Antigone
Review: In preparing to read Antigone, I looked at several translations before making my decision. By far, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations' version of Sophocles' Antigone was the supreme. By offering an introduction, mythical background, appendix, and author's note, the reader is able to easily become aquainted with the background surrounding the play's storyline. The version captures the original spirit of the play in the spelling of the Greek names, and in the whole body of the translation itself. The perfect edition for those studying The Antigone!