AnTiGoNe

Hi Friends,

 

Sorry this blog post is mostly about me disagreeing with things.. 🙂

First of all, I admit I looked at a few blog posts before starting mine and I noticed a few people talking about female empowerment in Antigone. I disagree with this, because although Antigone did refuse to conform to Kreon’s laws, the bigger point in this play is Kreon and his superiority over everyone, including Antigone. She does completely step out of the female role to defend her brother and his rights, but she’s still exiled for disobeying which shows that man still has the higher role.

The other statement I disagreed with was the one mentioned in our lecture today that Antigone and Kreon were in the same boat, neither of them right or wrong. In my opinion, Antigone is the protagonist in this play. Like Kreon, she’s fighting for what she thinks is right. She thinks that Polyneices deserves to buried and treated with the same holiness that Eteokles is treated with, while Kreon thinks that Polyneices’ treachery makes him unfit to be buried. It’s a simple difference of opinions and each of them is valid. The only aspect that sets them apart is that Antigone is opposing the law out of pure respect for her brother, while Kreon fights out of stubbornness. He doesn’t want Antigone, a woman and a minority, to appear smarter than him, the ruler.He repeats over and over in the play that he doesn’t want to give and be beaten..he’s treating it more as a game than anything.

I did air cadets for a few years (embarrassing) and at least half of our squadron was made up of Kreons (insecure kids who tried to enforce ridiculous regulations while they could, because outside of their titles they had no power and they were derps)

 

And that’s about all I can think of for now

 

BYE!

 

-Olivia 🙂

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Hi Arts one!

I’m Olivia, 18 and I’m from Ladner, BC a tiny town that nobody knows about made up of farms and elderly people.

I went to Gabrielle-Roy in Surrey for my first year of high school and spent the rest of my high school career at Hugh McRoberts Secondary in Richmond. Gabrielle-Roy was a tiny francophone school (My family is part French, originally from Morocco) and I wanted to be in a huge school so I switched.

I really love dancing and gymnastics. I’ve been dancing a variety of styles since I was 7 which include ballet, hip hop, musical theatre, polynesian, break dancing and belly dancing. I competed for the past two years in belly dance and the past three years in Hip Hop. I’ve done gymnastics since I was three and competed provincially for the past couple of years. Now that I’m 18, I’ve stopped dancing and gymnastics and decided to join the UBC cheer team since floor was always my favourite 🙂

I have a cute little lovebird named Cutie-Pie (He’s really cute)

I like eating

And I don’t know what else to say

BYE