teaching journal

blog glitch & Antigone readings

The links to student blogs on the right of my page stop right after Melony H.'s blog, and then there's a huge gap you have to scroll through until you get to the rest of the blogs. I checked my template and everything seems ok. Chris volunteered at 10 o'clock to take a look at the code and he couldn't find anything. Dunno what's up. [Looks like everything's working ok now. There was a weird glitch with the tag for the Mobile Register link. Don't know if that was affecting the sidebar somehow.]

Two interesting readings of Antigone. First of all, someone mentioned that Creon did not follow Tiresias' suggestion of going to the vault and freeing Antigone first, then burying Polynices. As someone else said, Creon was bullheaded again and buried the body first, then went to the vault...and it was too late. The other interpretation came with these lines of the Leader: "The king himself! Coming toward us, / look, holding the boy's head in his hands. / Clear, damning proof, if it's right to say so -- / proof of his own madness; none else's, / no, his own blind wrongs." Some read this to mean that Creon carried Haemon's head in his hands and that proved Creon's madness. Someone else had seen a movie of Antigone and said that Creon just held Haemon's head while Haemon was on the bier. I'd never thought of these two readings. This is when I'd love to know the original language and see the original script. Otherwise, interpretation is up for grabs -- dependent on the translator's skill and the reader's insight.

posted by Sandra @ 11:42 AM