How Does Antigone Change Throughout The Play

Antigone is basically the beginning and the end of the playwright. From the

prologue to the final scene, the play hinges on her acts of defiance or heroism. In

the beginning of the play, Antigone is basically the ugly sister in regards to Ismene.

Antigone is kind of grossly described to be honest. She’s small, scrawny, and

practically a spoiled little girl. Antigone makes choices for herself without any real

regards to advice or others opinion. So all in all I would say she makes pretty

unjust choices. Of course in her time period, women's choices were always unused

and considered “not smart” but hers in particular was not very wise.

The play is a melodrama so everything is spiced up. So she’s pretty hard to

put up with, always doing
She causes big issues with the whole kingdom really, when

she tried to bury that man. She’s flat in the sense that her opinions or views change

only slightly, when her world is flipped and the circumstances are no longer the

same. She was all about what she thought best until there was no kingdom to

defend and no body to defy. Then of course she died and became a nobody

character obviously.

Antigone herself made quite a statement in the storyline though, she was a

small little girl, who ends up defying the governing laws and upsetting the balance

of things. That’s quite an uproar. She actually ends up and loses everything due to

her small act of defiance. Her family, pride, and sense of whatever confidence she

had, were all put at stake due to her want for more. Her desire. Yet her desire and

defiance turns into genuine gratitude by the end. She has the same mindset as

before, yet she just realized maybe it wasn’t as bad and learns to appreciate the

fact that she still had everything. But in the end, she has nothing. Which is why I

believe she ends up dying is to show, she found the true meaning yet has no reset

button that can let her fix things. No repeat and can’t replace what she’s done.