Views on Antigone: Transgression as a Mandate from Sophocles to Marguerite Yourcenar

Abstract

p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US"Antigone, the paradigmatic victim of a very concrete form of male violence, is presented to us, innbsp;/spanSophocles, the Greek cinema of the 20th century, as well as in Marguerite Yourcenar's short story,nbsp;as a firm woman, convinced of her righteousness. Her decision to bury her condemned brother,nbsp;in opposition to the established powers that be, makes her a transgressive heroine. Hers is an example of total love with a tragic conclusion, and her actions show the loneliness ofnbsp;those who love alone. As other heroines of Greek tragedies mdash;Electra, Clytaemnestramdash;, shenbsp;completely embraces her destiny and refuses to play the social ace that she might have beennbsp;dealt. Keeping her essence, Yourcenarrsquo;s emAntigone/em has jumped forward in time and has adaptednbsp;to the century in which it was written./p