Antigone
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Antigone
by Authors:
Sophocles
Released: 12 October, 1993
ISBN: 0486278042
Paperback
Sales Rank: 41,913
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Customer Review #1:
 My thoughts of Antigone
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 Antigones 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 Im 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 dont 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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Customer Review #2:
 Antigone: Sophocles Greatest
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 wifes) brother Creon, and Creon does not want his son Haemon to marry Antigone because she buried her brother and that was against Creons 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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Customer Review #3:
 Great
Sophocles Antigone is a wonderful work - a dramatic and riveting play with a superb cast of characters. It is easy to understand, intersting, and fun to read. I highly recommend it.
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