Reflection of Antigone

 The story of Antigone is about two sisters who go back and forth about wanting to bury their brother that just died due to a fight he had with his brother. King Creon is Antigone's uncle, but he doesn't want Antigone's brother to have a proper burial due to him losing. Antigone was fighting to bury her brother, but her sister Ismene stressed that anyone who buries him you will be stoned because of the Kings (her uncle) decree. Antigone felt very strongly to bury him no matter what the consequences where of doing so. Antigone didn't want to follow Creon's law because she believed in her heart that it wasn't the law of the gods she believed in. Reading the text, I'll be honest I would do anything to give my brother a proper burial too. However, on the other hand I also can resonate with her sister Ismene because if I were to lose all of my family, I wouldn't want to lose my sister too if I can avoid her being stoned to death. Antigone did not care of the consequences she was going to face or how her sister felt. Antigone is considered a tragedy because multiple people died in the text including Antigone herself.   

The story of Antigone relates to the Popol Vuh because they both believe in different gods. These two texts, in my opinion, are a part of world literature because they have come from different cultures, eras, and regions. In Damrosch he speaks on how world literature come from different places. If the text can keep the main idea and point to its text while it being translated, then it can be considered world literature. Even though Antigone is a drama it can be very relatable in some ways. World literature can be defined as so many things, it showcases perspectives, themes, and cultural differences. 





#fa23worldlit

Comments

  1. Bowman’s QuiverOctober 3, 2023 at 9:49 AM

    I like how you relate Antigone to Popol Vuh, that's an interesting comparison i didn't realize!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yoel De La CruzDecember 14, 2023 at 2:50 PM

    I also agree with Bowman, I think the idea that Antigone and the Popol Vuh are related by their faith in different gods is just interesting. It emphasizes the diversity of the cultural perspectives are discovered in world literature.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ava moranDecember 18, 2023 at 9:34 PM

    I like your comparison to the other works we have read! I agree with the last sentence of your reflection. World literature can not be shoved into one box. It is so many things.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Image
  This play was truly a lot of twist and turns! Chekhov created a play that wasn't your average play, this play gives you a sense of reality and real things people in this world think about and the false reality of what they want to live up to. This play also made me think about what was truly important to me and if relationships matter more to me or does my career do. We would like to think that many of us have a "healthy balance" but I would personally say relationships matter more to me then my career. In this play they Treplev, Trigorin, Nina, and Arkadina make their career and how successful they are or want to become their identity. They are truly obsessed with them being the next big thing! When Chekhov created this play he got booed and no one liked it, similar to how Treplev was treated in his play that he wrote. No one liked his play because he didn't remotatize the ending and it wasn't how normal plays or literature was written with their "happy en...
Read more

Popol Vuh

Image
Popol Vuh, where to start in this crazy "myth". The complete text is blasphemy ! This entire read was mocking the entire word of God. It took the truth in the Bible and turned it into false truth. In the beginning of the text it is said that everything was still, there was no creation on the earth until two gods come together and conceived to make humanity, animals first. These gods wanted to be worshipped and spoken to but because the animals did not have a language they wiped them off the earth by getting eaten and killed. After they decided to get rid of animals these gods decided okay lets make people from mud, sounds too familiar doesn't it, that didn't work out for them so they created man out of wood. The first chapter alone stopped me in my tracks. In the bible it says,  God, as in Yahweh , spoke a word and created the heaven and earth. In the book of Genesis it says how God created earth, day, night, animals, sea, and man within 7 days.  As the reading contin...
Read more

Five Years Next Sunday by Idza Lubumyo

Image
Five Years Next Sunday 📚 This story 5 years next sunday exemplifies magical realism and allows the reader to truly connect with the protagonist. This story is about a Kenyan woman who has supernatural powers through her hair. Her power allows rain to come when its cut but in this story she hadn't cut her hair in 5 years. A white foreigner man sees Pili's hair and instantly  becomes obsessed with how it looks. In the story he shows up to her home and has long conversations with her parents. Some sort of exchange seems to happen. Throughout the story Seth, the foreigner, and Pili become more and more familiar with one another where it seems to be a relationship going on. In exchange for this relationship where he becomes more and more obsessed with her hair, there is an exchange of money happening between Seth and Pili's parents. In the story it implies that Seth has already been dating a women named "Honey". The story also implies t...
Read more