#plays : sophocles (3 translations including one by anne carson) / anouilh / cocteau

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obsessively thinking about antigone tonight. queer antigone / antigone as a product of incest displaying incestuous undertones&themes herself / married through death antigone (anouilh’s antigone, who wanted to have her first time with hemon the evening before she goes to bury her brother, who wanted to die not-a-virgin and yet not-a-wife but who didn’t, because they fought instead) / antigone who only knows how to live for oedipus / antigone who only knows how to die for her brothers / antigone who is nothing but her love for her family / antigone who leaves ismene behind / antigone who knows her brothers have been cursed by her father but still goes back to thebes, because she has to / antigone who knows creon will remove the dirt she puts on polyneikes’ body, but still puts it there, because she has to / antigone ready to die, born to die / antigone already dead from the beginning, her fate sealed long ago / antigone leaving thebes as a child knowing she will only come back to die.

#antigone #it’s probably my favorite tragedy #which says a lot because i love many ancient tragedies #but antigone ? #i love her so much #i have so many versions of her story now #plays : sophocles (3 translations including one by anne carson) / anouilh / cocteau #novels : henry bauchau’s oedipus on the road + antigone #and it breaks me every single time #classics #oedipus #jocasta #ismene #eteokles #polyneikes #polynices