A Glimpse into Antigone's character immortalized by Greek Playwright Sophocles

I've always been a fan of Greek tragedies, since they seem to have been taken from today's world of ours. One of the tragedies written by the famous Sophocles is Antigone. It is important to know who Antigone is. Well she was born of the incestuous union of Oedipus, the former king of Thebes, and his own mother. Her tragedy begins when she learns about this truth. Oedipus had unknowingly had sex with Jocasta who was later married to his father.

This gave birth to the term 'Oedipus Complex', which is today used to depict the infatuation of son towards his mother. However, Antigone was the result of Oedipus-Jocasta union. The revelation leads her into further troubles as she jumps into the fray for her rights.

Taking a serious stance on her life through Sophocles' play, Gaither Steward endeavours to help us understand the conflict she was deeply entangled in. He takes out a few moments from the play to relate her life to the modern day conflicts.

Antigone’s travail begins when she learns she was born of the incestuous union of Oedipus, the former king of Thebes, and his own mother, Jocasta. After the blindness of her father-brother, Antigone follows him into exile, before returning to Thebes after his death to try to reconcile her brothers quarrelling over the throne. Instead the two warring brothers are both killed and Creon, Antigone’s uncle, becomes king. Creon honors the brother who defends Thebes but forbids the removal of the corpse of the second, condemning it to rot as a traitor. 

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