Antigone

Chantel Santamaria

ENGLISH 102

Raquel Corona

March 28, 2015

1.  In literature, the word agency means, “the freedom and capacity to live or act in a defined world.”  And so, when you look at the character of Antigone, to what extent does she have agency in the play?  In what ways have you seen her act on her own ability to live and survive in this particular world?

     When I look at the character of Antigone I see a brave girl who seems to do things in her own way. She is strong and doesn't fear much about what’s going to happen to her if she takes some decisions in the world that she is leaving in. She shows agency through all the play, because she doesn't like to be rule by others. Antigone honor God but not human law basically. One very moment that she have agency in the story was the situation she had with her sister in in (line 79), where she states that with or without the help from her sister Ismene she will still go and bury her brother and honor him the right way. Here she provides herself as an independent person and that she will be next to her brother no matter what other people think or do to her, she breaks the law at that point, but she never hurt anyone the only intentions she had where to honor her brother.

Antigone demonstrate to everyone that family is first and everybody need to be treated equally she states that “Creon is not enough to stand in my way”. She also believes that each person need to be bury peacefully to be with God. Antigone family when though almost everything and their death gave her the strange she had to do the things she did on her own. She believes that there’s nothing also to loss because she lost everything when she lost her family. Now she will loyal them as they deserve. In the life of Antigone God is above all, so she prefers to be loyal to him and rest in the afterlife than to keep suffering in the cruel world she was living in.
   Another very moment where Antigone shows agency was during the end of the play when she decides how she was going to die. Her brave choice of suicide prove that nothing was more important than her family and God and she would not give Creon the pleasure to see  her suffer to death on earth.