Tragedy As Satire In Antigone

Castro, Andres Fabian Henao. “Antigone Claimed: ‘I Am A Stranger!’ Political Theory And The Figure Of The Stranger.” Hypatia 28.2 (2013): 307-322. Literary Reference Cen-ter. Web. 15 Mar. 2018 Castro analyzes the irony in the Sophocles’ play “Antigone”. The critic explains how Sophocles uses tyranny to show the irony used in the play. Creon, the antago-nist, says things in the play that actually describe himself when he was talking about others, therefore being hypocritical. The critic explains this by saying “Creon be-ing hypocritical is the most ironic thing that happened in this play.” Johnson, Graham. "Sophocles ' Antigone: Tragedy as Satire? Vol. 7, Article 25."
Castro, Andres Fabian Henao. “Antigone Claimed: “I Am a Stranger!” Political Theory and Figure of the Stranger”. Academic Search Premier. Volume 28, March 2013. Web. 15 March 2018. The author is projecting the idea of stranger from a political perspective. He uses the terms life and death to give the reader a better understanding of what it is to be a stranger in the 21 st century. He theorize the condition of a stranger with other terms followed by refugees, statelessness, non-citizen, and alien. Antigone plays the position for political refugee. In the play Antigone refers to herself as a stranger. She

Farneth, Molly. "Gender and the Ethical Given." Ebscohost.com . Journal of Religious Ethics, Dec. 2013. Web. 15 March 2018. This article questions why Antigone Is so fascinating. Farneth also spoke on how Antigone went out of a regular Greek woman 's element. Greek women are supposed to honor home, hearth, and household but Antigone followed her religious beliefs, went through with her actions of burying her brother for the respect of her family and argued with Creon 's civil law. Greek polis, which is the public and political sphere for Greeks, was a world for men. Antigone interfered with that world by speaking on the behalf of the brother Polyneices which jeopardized Creon 's male