Reflective statement
An analysis of Sophocles’ portrayal of fate and destiny in Antigone
Interactive Oral took place on 29th October 2013
How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral?
Antigone is a world renowned play which confirms to us that change is the only permanent thing in the world. Even though it was written in 441 B.C., this play initiates the change in the patriarchal society in a most conspicuous style.
During the Interactive Oral conducted in the class a great many things became clear in my perspective. Before the starting of the interactive oral I had my doubts about Creon’s role in Antigone’s life. I did have some difficulties with the style of writing Sophocles used.
During the discussion when one of my classmates Haider* told the class that Sophocles used figurative speech. I think it is a brilliant way of putting your point forward and enhancing …show more content…
Though our thoughts on fate and destiny conflict with ancient Greece belief of fate and destiny, Sophocles did try to build a bridge and decrease the differences. He proposed that in his play that people do have a choice of which way the character wants to go. Antigone could have lived by not giving her brother a burial, she could have endured the sorrow she felt for not burying her brother but she chose what she wanted to do, though she ended up dying which is considered as suicide, but was a heroic deed in that era because the Greeks believed that people who die were doing a heroic deed and the dead would live on to a great and happy afterlife under the blessings of Hades. Fate and destiny can play a big role in each one of our lives – if we allow it to. This makes us belief that fate and destiny played an important role in the characters’
An analysis of Sophocles’ portrayal of fate and destiny in Antigone
Interactive Oral took place on 29th October 2013
How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral?
Antigone is a world renowned play which confirms to us that change is the only permanent thing in the world. Even though it was written in 441 B.C., this play initiates the change in the patriarchal society in a most conspicuous style.
During the Interactive Oral conducted in the class a great many things became clear in my perspective. Before the starting of the interactive oral I had my doubts about Creon’s role in Antigone’s life. I did have some difficulties with the style of writing Sophocles used.
During the discussion when one of my classmates Haider* told the class that Sophocles used figurative speech. I think it is a brilliant way of putting your point forward and enhancing …show more content…
Though our thoughts on fate and destiny conflict with ancient Greece belief of fate and destiny, Sophocles did try to build a bridge and decrease the differences. He proposed that in his play that people do have a choice of which way the character wants to go. Antigone could have lived by not giving her brother a burial, she could have endured the sorrow she felt for not burying her brother but she chose what she wanted to do, though she ended up dying which is considered as suicide, but was a heroic deed in that era because the Greeks believed that people who die were doing a heroic deed and the dead would live on to a great and happy afterlife under the blessings of Hades. Fate and destiny can play a big role in each one of our lives – if we allow it to. This makes us belief that fate and destiny played an important role in the characters’