Blog Post: Antigone's Traits

Though Antigone is the main character and namesake of the play Antigone, I don't think that she is necessarily one of the best people to have as the main focus of a novel. In the beginning, she seems kind of selfish in the way that she (seems to) only wants to bury Polyneices by herself so that she can take all the credit/people will idolize her for doing the right thing. Maybe I'm just pessimistic or in a bad mood, but I think Antigone is quite selfish and doesn't really think about the consequences of her actions. On the other hand, she does fight to do what she believes in despite her social status which I can respect. I wish that the play focused a little more on the changes (if there were any) to the lower status of women at the time, but Creon's words toward Antigone do show the topic pretty clearly.