Analysis Of Judith Butler's'survivability '
Antigone through the lens of Judith Butler’s “Survivability, Vulnerability, and Affect”
Introduction
Antigone is tied by two key sentances to the message in Judith Bulter’s “Survivability, Vulnerability, and Affect”, “It has been since at least the time of Antigone, when she chose openly to mourn the death of one of her brothers even though it went against the sovereign law to do so. Why is it that governments so often seek to regulate and control who will be publicly grieved and two will not?”
The focus of this essay is Judith Butler’s question of how we view what is or isn’t valuable or grievable life. . In some readings of Antigone, the sole focus of the play was Antigone’s grief and strength, but there are three compelling characters …show more content…
I know it's right, die if I must! My crime will be a holy crime. I am his and I shall lie buried with him. There will be more time with those below that those on earth. I'll be there for eternity. but as for you, forget the gods if that's what you …show more content…
Her behavior inflicts an affective response on the audience and begs the question: How should the audience behave in the face of governments imposing a similar dismissal of the value of certain lives?
Ismene
In response to Antigone, Ismene speaks reasonably, and many feel that they would speak similarly if faced with the same situation. She is a peacekeeper in the opening scene and attempted to keep Antigone reasonable and calm.
“Sister, remember how our father but blinded himself when he discovered that he had killed his father and slept with his mother. He died, hated and condemned by all! Then his wife and mother (one and the same) and she was our mother as well, brought her life to a violent end by hanging herself. And now finally out two poor brothers,on a single day, kill each other. And we are going to add to that cycle of horrors? We shall die if we go against the decision of our ruler.” (S, 4)
She later conflicts with this reasoning, when Ismene begs to be killed with her sister and acts as the first obstacle in King Creon’s proclamation to kill Antigone and Ismene, when he decides not to kill her. He backslides further and further from his original damnation of the two sisters after that
Introduction
Antigone is tied by two key sentances to the message in Judith Bulter’s “Survivability, Vulnerability, and Affect”, “It has been since at least the time of Antigone, when she chose openly to mourn the death of one of her brothers even though it went against the sovereign law to do so. Why is it that governments so often seek to regulate and control who will be publicly grieved and two will not?”
The focus of this essay is Judith Butler’s question of how we view what is or isn’t valuable or grievable life. . In some readings of Antigone, the sole focus of the play was Antigone’s grief and strength, but there are three compelling characters …show more content…
I know it's right, die if I must! My crime will be a holy crime. I am his and I shall lie buried with him. There will be more time with those below that those on earth. I'll be there for eternity. but as for you, forget the gods if that's what you …show more content…
Her behavior inflicts an affective response on the audience and begs the question: How should the audience behave in the face of governments imposing a similar dismissal of the value of certain lives?
Ismene
In response to Antigone, Ismene speaks reasonably, and many feel that they would speak similarly if faced with the same situation. She is a peacekeeper in the opening scene and attempted to keep Antigone reasonable and calm.
“Sister, remember how our father but blinded himself when he discovered that he had killed his father and slept with his mother. He died, hated and condemned by all! Then his wife and mother (one and the same) and she was our mother as well, brought her life to a violent end by hanging herself. And now finally out two poor brothers,on a single day, kill each other. And we are going to add to that cycle of horrors? We shall die if we go against the decision of our ruler.” (S, 4)
She later conflicts with this reasoning, when Ismene begs to be killed with her sister and acts as the first obstacle in King Creon’s proclamation to kill Antigone and Ismene, when he decides not to kill her. He backslides further and further from his original damnation of the two sisters after that