Wednesday, January 25, 2006
1/25/2006 11:56:00 PM - A Close Encounter with...
Now that I had finish reading “Antigone” for the second time, I would like to share my first time. When I first flip the first few pages of the play “Antigone”, a thought past through my mind “Great, I’m going to have a hard time understanding this!!!” Indeed my first thoughts were not wrong. I m not saying that I couldn’t understand a single thing mentioned in the text, I just had difficulties. Some of the sentence structures were way to confusing for me and so are some of the words. Thank God I managed to finish reading the whole play without dozing off.(It was a miracle!!..=P) I had read another Greek play prior to reading “Antigone”. It was Oedipus and one thing I noticed in both plays is that the Chorus tends to have very long utterances.long winded! And most of the time, the language used is weird, and worst; sometimes I couldn’t even see the relationship with the rest of the play.(pity me...sob...sob) Anyone agree with me? One thing for sure, “Antigone” is an interesting play with issues worth discussing. Perhaps I’ll do just that in my next posting. Anyway, I m just sharing my experience while reading “Antigone” for the first time.
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