Antigone - The Unburied Grief
This week, we gently closed the door on A Doll's House with a wonderful discussion of the tension that Ibsen created. Nora couldn't pretend to be two different people anymore. The stakes were high with her debt of conflicted meaning, we followed her three day struggle, and in the end she decided to leave her husband, children, and home she had known for eight years to seek the true person she really was. The Book Club Verdict was it was worth a read. In January we go back in time, to the period after the last Old Testament book was written but our journey continues with the Sophocles play, Antigone (422 BC). But, unlike Nora in A Doll's House, Antigone knows exactly who she is. The play, Antigone, is the first play written in the Oedipus trilogy, but the finale of the chronology Oedipus Rex - Oedipus at Colonus and finally Antigone. It would have been a familiar tale to the Athenians of the time as the story of the family of Oedipus had been in the oral tradition of the H...
