i love when academics are like this
from the translator's introduction in my copy of antigone... she's his blorbo.... <3
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I have been in love with Antigone since I first encountered the play that bears her name. The ideas to which she gives voice are interesting and important, but the young woman is captivating--the character Sophocles created for this play, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, Antigone who gives up everything to put right something she believes is wrong. I confess this at the outset because it explains why I may not succeed in writing objectively about the play. In what follows, however, I will attempt to show why some scholars think that her original audience must have condemned her as a bad woman, and I will do my best to bring out the good qualities in her antagonist, Creon. But in the end, like Creon's son who plans to marry her, I want to spit in the old man's face.
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