I learned a few things today, or rather was reminded if I already knew. Among them, Kirkegaard(sp?)was an existentialist Dane, author of such sunny titles as Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Charles Dickens was obsessed with Little Red Riding Hood in much the same way that Hegel was obsessed with Antigone(Hegel and a whole bunch of others), and that tremendous self-conciousness will result if one applies knowledge that for some reason or another was already held to the task of relating George Steiner.
I also thought it was intriguing to consider that Antigone probably might be very young(13-14, though of course it never really talks about this in the text). Intriguing comparisons could be done with her and Shakespeare's Juliet, another tremendously bright very young woman who ended up being entombed alive and then committing suicide. And both ending up clashing with their fathers(or father figures) and end up dying for love, albiet of two different kinds(philia for Antigone, and eros for Juliet). Or I could just be out of my gourd.
The disected page from George Steiner will come eventually.
I also thought it was intriguing to consider that Antigone probably might be very young(13-14, though of course it never really talks about this in the text). Intriguing comparisons could be done with her and Shakespeare's Juliet, another tremendously bright very young woman who ended up being entombed alive and then committing suicide. And both ending up clashing with their fathers(or father figures) and end up dying for love, albiet of two different kinds(philia for Antigone, and eros for Juliet). Or I could just be out of my gourd.
The disected page from George Steiner will come eventually.
posted by Kari Bowles at 1:21 PM
2 Comments:
A lovely connection between the Symposium and the Antigone, Juliet comparison. I found the Greek classifications of love hard to wrap my thoughts around as they put the most value on relationships between old men and young boys, and I am a girl. Antigone and Juliet are girls too and they certainly are powerful figures of love, so there. Love applies to females too!(this is of course a generalization, i just think the consideration of females and love was sorely lacking in symposium
I think your comparison between Juliet and Antigone is a little off base.Antigone died for a noble cause, to do what was right even if the cost was her life. Juliet died because she was an addle-brained youth who was smitten with a man she barely knew.
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