Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Antigone

Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. From what I understand, Jocasta is Oedipus' mother. Her name (The daughter) may 'be taken to mean' -Wikipedia (yush Wikipedia) 'unbending' coming from 'anti' (against, opposed to) and 'gony' (Corner, bend, angle) but her name has also been suggested to mean 'opposed to motherhood'. 'in place of a mother' or 'anti generative'.
 She is the daughter of an accidentally Incestuous (intercourse etc. between closely related family members) because Jocasta is King Oedipus of Thebes mother. She is the main heroine in a popular story where she attempts to gain a respectable burial for her brother, Polynices, even though he was a tratior and the law forbade even to mourn him, on pain of death. In the oldest known version of the story, the funeral is conducted whilst her father, Oedipus, reigns over Thebes, but it is before he marries Jocasta, leading me into a confusion pit. Because if she is the result of there marriage, then how come she is alive whilst her 'parents' are not married? Anyway. In the more popular , the best known, versions, Sophocles' tragedies, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, it appears in the years after Oedipus' banishment and death, Antigone has to struggle against Creon. In the version by Sophocles, both of Antigone' brothers are killed in a battle against the state. Im assuming 'the state' is Thebes.
 Okay, enough for now. XD

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