Drama

DRAMA
Mega Adi Saputra (07-2406)
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
THE FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MAHASARASWATI UNIVERSITY
DENPASAR
2010
Antigone
1. Genre
Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC.

Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first.[1] The play
expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven
Against Thebes ends.
2. Era
Antigone was written at a time of national fervor. In 441 BC, shortly after the play was
released, Sophocles was appointed as one of the ten generals to lead a military expedition
against Samos Island. It is striking that a prominent play in a time of such imperialism
contains no political propaganda, no impassioned apostrophe, makes not a single
contemporary allusion or passing reference to Athens, and betrays no patriotic interests
whatsoever.[2] Rather than become sidetracked with the issues of the time, Antigone
remains completely focused on the characters and themes within the play.
3. Movement
A well established theme in Antigone is the right of the individual to reject society's
infringement on her freedom to perform a personal obligation,[9] obvious in Antigone's
refusal to let Creon dictate what she is allowed to do with her family members. She says
to Ismene about Creon's edict, "He has no right to keep me from my own."[10] Related to
this theme is the question whether Antigone's will to bury her brother is based on rational
thought or instinct, a debate whose contributors include greats like Goethe.[9]
4. Style
Antigone deals with two main questions:
1. whether Polyneices ought to be given burial rituals, and

2. whether someone who buried him in defiance of state ought to be punished.
Antigone buries Polyneices at the very beginning, and so the play is consumed mainly with the
second question. Once Creon has discovered that Antigone buried her brother against his orders,
the ensuing discussion of her fate is devoid of arguments for mercy because of youth or sisterly
love from the Chorus, Haemon or Antigone herself. All of the arguments to save her center on a
debate over which course adheres best to strict justice.[4]
Once the initial premises behind the characters in Antigone have been established, the action of
the play moves steadily and inevitably towards the outcome. [5] Because Creon is the person and
king that he is, he will naturally decree that the body of the disloyal brother remain unburied, and
will naturally demand absolute obedience to his decree. Antigone, being the person that she is
and holding her views, will naturally defy the decree. Creon will naturally demand that the
unknown criminal be arrested and brought before him, etc
5. Ending
Creon enters, carrying Haemon's body. He understands that his own actions have caused these
events. A Second Messenger arrives to tell Creon and the Chorus that Eurydice has killed
herself. With her last breath, she cursed her husband. Creon blames himself for everything that
has happened, and, a broken man, he asks his servants to help him inside. The order he valued so
much has been protected, and he is still the king, but he has acted against the gods and lost his
child and his wife as a result. The Chorus closes by saying that although the gods punish the
proud, punishment brings wisdom.
Ile
1. Genre
It's about a mutiny aboard a whaling ship; and The Rope, about a senile man's hatred for
his son.
2. Era
Its classic story because the story takes place in 1895
3. Movement
1917In the Zone. This Washington Square Players' production is another of the
playwright's realistic seagoing dramas, about a crew member aboard the S. S. Glencairn
suspected of being a spy. O'Neill also writes The Long Voyage Home, one of five one-act
dramas by the playwright performed by the Provincetown Players in 1917. In it, a
Swedish sailor in a sleazy London waterfront bar entertains a dream of returning home,
which is shattered when he is shanghaied for another voyage. The other four plays are
Fog, about lifeboat survivors; The Sniper, an antiwar drama; Ile, about a mutiny aboard a
whaling ship; and The Rope, about a senile man's hatred for his son.
4. Style
Annie has difficulty to reveal her true desire. Therefore, I want to know why
experiencing exciting sea life is not Annie?s true desire and why having
companionship is Annie?s true desire. I use literary approach, namely conflict,
characterization and symbolism in order to help me to analyze the reason of Annie?s
untrue and true desire. I also want to use Friedan?s feminine mystique and Lips?
theory of loneliness. I find out that I conclude that there are two reasons of
experiencing sea life as Annie?s untrue desire. The first reason is Annie?s
unhappiness while she is experiencing exciting sea life. Annie?s unhappiness is
caused by her discomfort on physical and social environment. The second reason is
my consideration on Annie?s failure in understanding her true desire. Moreover, I
also found out that there is one reason of having experiencing sea life as Annie?s true
desire. The reason is Annie?s unhappy life. Annie?s unhappy life is caused by her
loneliness which demands a companionship. Another cause of Annie?s unhappy life
is her inability to fulfill her desire for experiencing sea life.
5. Ending
[He turns abruptly and goes out. MRS. KEENEY does not appear to notice his departure.
Her whole attention seems centred in the organ. She sits with half-closed eyes, her body
swaying a little from side to side to the rhythm of the hymn. Her fingers move faster and
faster and she is playing wildly and discordantly as the Curtain falls.]

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Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC.

Antigone deals with two main questions:

1. whether Polyneices ought to be given burial rituals, and

Its classic story because the story takes place in 1895

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