The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and her sister ...

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That is, the generalized interpretation is that of Antigone as an impassioned private subject, in line with a generalized cliché of femininity, and Creon symbolizing the cold-heartedness of power.

Antigone’s defiance of King Creon’s edict that her brother Polynices’ body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs.

Antigone then defies the new king, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices, who is deemed a traitor and forbidden from receiving a proper burial. Her act of defiance leads to her imprisonment and ...

Ulysses, Antigone, Creon, and many others. Characters from myth who have never ceased to fascinate readers and audiences. Authentic icons of ...

The play, set in a society governed by strict rules, follows Antigone, a fearless young woman who defies King Creon's orders to give her brother a proper burial, showing individual defiance in the ...

No one more starkly captured those characteristics and their consequences than Sophocles, most notably in his masterpiece, Antigone. At the heart of its drama lies Thebes’ new king, Creon ...