Is Antigone or Creon the winner of the debate between them A discussion of Anouilhs Antigone as modern tragedy
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Different interpretations of the play
- Creon's practicality and an underlying cynicism.
- Antigone: Representing the moral value of taking an impossible position and seeing it through
- Calin's analysis of Antigone and Creon
- Heiney's belief that Anouilh prefers Antigone to Creon
- Wit in the play
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Abstract
Which character in Jean anouilh's modern adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy, antigone, antigone or creon, presents the stronger argument in their debate concerning the best way to deal with the dilemma of whether or not burying Polynices, antigone's brother, is necessary or wrong, from a moral perspective? The way that anouilh has constructed the debate between the two, at one moment we can agree with creon and decide that antigone is being ridiculous. At another moment, when antigone attacks creon's entire moral credibility, we see her point of view and question creon's integrity. In a sense, both creon and antigone are tragic victims, both caught up in the ancient curse that has plagued Oedipus and his entire family. The play antigone is a final tragic conclusion to the tragic story of an entire kinship line. From the filial rivalry that has set the kingdom on its road to destruction, to antigone's death, closely followed by the death of creon's son, and his wife, the fall of great people, due to tragic flaws, is the cloth from which the play's substance is woven. While one is not stronger than the other, antigone's decision is the more tragic - it brings about the greater tragic outcome; in her death, creon still is unable to see his role or life as tragic - for him life goes on, revealing his emptiness.
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