Feb 7th

Today we talked about how tradegy was "all in the family" and how that related to Antigone. That does remind me alot about Dune, and Star Wars(The old trilogy, not the crappy new ones), where elements of those stories seem more tragic specifically becasue family members are in conflict.
We are obligated to read a page of Steiner and try to do a close reading. My close reading was of page 149 in Antigones, which involves the methods in which women in literature strive for political power. In regards to older literatures, women have limited choices: Either act like a man and traverse the political spectrum as a sort of imitation, manipulate a man, or gain power through some sort of magic or mystisism. An example of a woman traversing politics like a man would be Joan of Arc, examples of women manipulating men can be found in Julius Caesar, and Shakespeare's Macbeth or really any sort of witch like characters who control men through magic validate the supernatural angle.
The idea here, is that Antigone, by referancing the "gods below" as reason for burying her brother is a claim to the supernatural as reasons for doing a deed that, beacuse of the orders of Creon, is political in nature.