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Antigone

Jean Anouilh

Paperback | Pages: 72 pages

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Title	:	Antigone
Author	:	Jean Anouilh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 72 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1960 by Methuen Publishing (first published February 4th 1944)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Cultural. France. Theatre. Drama. Academic. School. Fiction

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TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS -
WE LIVE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.
1960's song.

If Sophocles' version of this is the best, Anouilh's is the one that's most like we all are INSIDE.

When I was 16, a callow youth, I thought Anouilh's heroine just couldn't compromise. I thought, how dumb! Creon was right to imprison her… But later in life, when my personal shibboleths were challenged by my seniors I wouldn't budge.

How come?

Well, our personal experiences in an amoral world can force our ethical hand, and then we create personal principles. That’s the change that youth endures. We must FIND ourselves.

And when we do, it’s: My way or the highway!

Not all our moral choices come from upbringing, schooling, or culture. Some are created OURSELVES by our personal idiosyncrasies and histories.

A traumatic childhood event can begin the personal conditioning process. So can parental abuse or sibling rivalry. Or, a sudden, earth-shaking shock. We are all different because of our private reactions as well as our parental conditioning. And especially today, because we are freer to choose.

But are we luckier? Would Antigone be luckier today? No, because the law is the law, and Creon's law is the Law in Athens. As it is here now.

Our freedom becomes a thorn in our side in the end with the endless conditions imposed on it. So we choose sides. And we naturally go for the most personally satisfying side.

The other side chooses practical Necessity. Same thing: My way or the highway!

But come, says the Law as the Lord says to Isaiah - let us reason together...

YES. Let us Reason! For we can indeed lead with our heart - BUT WE MUST FOLLOW WITH OUR HEAD. Exactly as Creon says to Antigone…

Like Antigone, and like all kids when faced with their seniors' ultimatums, reasoning is PASSIONATE. For Creon, and us adults, reasoning is HUMAN. It bends. As WE must bend, though not to the extent of committing a Wrong action. And Reason and our Heart TOGETHER will lead us to the Golden Mean.

We must charitably bend. And that will Hurt.

But you know, adults see kids as unreasonable, and kids sometimes see adults as middle-class moral mediocrities. The impasse isn't going to go away without the Balm of Time.

Unfortunately neither Creon or Antigone HAS time! And, really, neither do we.

It’s DOWN TO THE CRUNCH time! Time, as Auden says, to face the music:

We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

And we must face that blaring music over, and over again - without sacrificing our personal values. Our personal Cross will turn it to Harmony. And one day its “music will untune the sky.” On that day we will see our life as it really is.

And we can finally Face the Face of truth. For it is Good...

Anouilh's characters are as real as we are.

And his play isn't about compromise, as I thought at 16.

It's about living a real life among real people, WIDE AWAKE - with ALL our differences intact!

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Original Title:	Antigone
ISBN:	041330860X (ISBN13: 9780413308603)
Edition Language:	English

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Read this play any time you feel you're being talked into something which sounds plausible, but which you know in your heart just stinks. It was written to encourage French people not to collaborate with the Nazis during the occupation. A miracle that it was ever performed. Were the Nazi censors simply stupid, or did some bureaucratic hero take a huge risk to get it cleared? Perhaps a bit of both... it's hard to see how just one would be enough. The story is kind of heartbreaking. If you haven't

Antigone: Sophocles versus AnouilhSince I am about to see a Dutch adaptation of Anouilh's version of Antigone, I decided to read both plays beforehand (Anouilh in French, Sophocles in English). Perhaps it is advisable to read Sophocles first (which I did not do), for it is clearly the more superficial piece of the two. The story is clear-cut, the predicaments of the characters are all there, but the story misses psychological depth: Anouilh's characters are much more rounded than Sophocles'. We

I think I'm becoming a little bit obsessed with this play, which is kind of fun. It's at the point now where I am actually very keen to learn Ancient Greek so I can read the original Sophocles. In the meantime, though, I would like to read an English translation of Anouilh, and then read the French again, or perhaps read them concurrently. This was very interesting, not least because all the data points fitted. I think just about everything from Sophocles' original Antigone was included: every

Holy moly, that was so good, honestly one of my favourite plays and I would love to see this live. The play was easy to follow and I loved the long monologues by chorus, Antigone and Creon, such powerful proclamations.Highly recommended to everyone

I'm not usually a fan of adaptions of classical texts, but this was fantastic. It keeps all the spirit of Sophocles' original, while being highly relevant to the period it was produced in (Nazi occupied France). Antigone clearly represents the French Resistance and the unthinking Guards Hitlers' Nazi followers. What's interesting is the representation of the harsh and unyielding ruler Creon (Hitler). The performance was allowed by the Nazi regime because the portrayal of the king was complex and

Fukit, honey. Go ahead : kill yourself. You bore me.

One of my favourite books. I don't read a lot of theatre plays, but this one is special for me. I almost know it by heart.