Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause.
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“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?
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For us, Oedipus remains the more famous figure, because his story is read more often in school. While trying to dodge a prophecy that he would marry his mother and kill his father, Oedipus — accidentally — does both. Antigone and his other children are thus his sister-daughters and brother-sons. Antigone’s name means “against reproduction” or possibly “born to oppose” or “in place of the parents.” (It suggests an angle that has bent wrong.) Her nature expresses her family’s awful contamination, but also her ability to end a cycle — no reproduction, after all.
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