Antigone

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Review: Thoughts

I feel that Sophocles "Antigone" was rather enjoyable. I loved the irony throughout the whole story that Sophocles is so great at. I loved how the whole fight happened between a family. It resembles a modern day family. The brothers fighting, siblings fight non-stop. I look at Creon and Antigone's relationship to resemble at father daughter relationship. Creon being the father of a teenager, (Antigone), who is looking at things for herself and going against her father's (Creon) rules. Also the irony of how the people that Creon really cared about were the people who ended up dead in the end. His pride was too great; his emotions did not stand a chance against his pride. It was very easy to relate to the plot of the play.
Personally I feel that Sophocles was trying to say that you have to be aware of what is really important in your life. You have to sit down and think about if what you are doing will bring you happiness in the end. Creon was not the greatest at this. He decided to put his pride in front of his family. In his mind there was no way a woman would go against what he said and get away with it. Even if it was his niece, and future daughter in law. But I can not put all of this on Creon. Antigone also was very prideful. But unlike Creon, she decided that family was more important then the laws of the land. While Antigone's decision making could be considered arguable, I would say it was safe to say that Creon did have his priorities mixed up.
From reading the play I have been able to reevaluate my life. From seeing the way that Creon ended up in the end, I decided to take my pride and put it towards the back of the line. In my life my relationship with Jesus Christ should be first, but other things always seem to slip in there. Maybe it is not pride, maybe pride was just used as a substitute for something, maybe it is an addiction, or something else that interferes with what is really important. I have had the chance to look at my life and get my "pride" in order. Something like that can tear a man apart and his family. Sophocles wrote a great example of this.
If you have not read Antigone yet, I would highly recommend it. I feel it is a great story. It has a strong plot. But I feel the most enjoyable part of reading it comes from when you take it off of paper and you put in your life. Now I'm not saying go and live your life by a play written more then 2000 years ago. But no one is perfect, except my savior, Jesus Christ, and until the day I am standing next to him, I would do mostly anything to strive for perfection. I being a Christian am called to be like Christ. So if taking something that I have read and try to make it apart of my life helps me along the road then I say why not. Read it, enjoy it, apply it.

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Summary: Thrift indeed
Review: You buy this type of item for the price. The price was low, and you can wear the book out without worrying about it. Good if you don't want to pay too much for a book.