Journal #12- Antigone

The author creates contrast between ugly and beautiful to create tension. Antigone characterizes herself as being ugly but in the end she implies she is beautiful, like a queen. Creon also brings up Oedipus, her father, and talks about how Antigone is just like him. Oedipus is characterized as being ugly too. What him and his daughter have in common is that they take actions in the things they strongly believe in. In Oedipus' case he did all he could to find out the truth about him and his family even though it was not a happy ending for him. Creon would have not done the same thing and would have instead "asked the messenger to leave". Both of these sides have good points. Because on one hand the truth is revealed but on the other you could just go on with your life, like Creon would. I think the difference is that in the end Oedipus turn out "beautiful" through his suffering. In Antigone's case she buries her brother even though she has no doubt she will be put to death. But in her view it would be even worse for her not to burry her own brother. But she did, and not even death can take her actions away. So in the end, just like her father she is beautiful even after she must die.