Monday, March 3, 2008

Bertolt Brecht's Antigone




This version of Antigone was much more political. It seemed like Antigone was not trying to bury her brother for the sake of family ties. Instead, she was doing in more in defiance of Creon. Creon, in this version, is much more powerful and seems to understand a great deal more about the politics of his kingdom than that of the Creon in Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes.
Antigone seems more concerned about making a statement and standing up against what is wrong. Whereas previously she was more concerned with the afterlife, she was more consumed with this life in this version.

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