Month: January 2022
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Antigone Learner Portfolio
The three units that we had covered this semester, A Doll’s House, Liza Donnelly Cartoons, and Antigone, had taught about many different aspects about global issues, including gender inequality, racism, etc. For our third unit in Language & Literature, similar to our first unit, A Doll’s House, we learned more about feminism and patriarchy, gender roles, and family obligations through the play, Antigone. Throughout this unit, we had gone through and worked on several different assignments to improve our knowledge and understanding on these global issues, and for us to be able to compare and contrast how these issues are similar or different from the past to the present day.
In the beginning of this unit. the first assignment that we had completed was finding definitions for the different vocabularies used in Ancient Greek dramas. The purpose for this was to familiarize ourselves with the terms used to describe different parts of the play, as well as different characters. Ancient Greek dramas are slightly different from modern dramas, as the time set for both dramas would be different, character behaviors would also be different, and the terms used in the Ancient Greek is not as commonly used in the present. In this assignment, t is important that the definition found for each term was accurate, as there can be several other definitions that do not fit the Ancient Greek definition.
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Open in new tab Another assignment that we had completed was reading Antigone, and doing a reading journal to understand and identify different themes shown in the play. Although watching Antigone can also give a brief understanding of the play, reading the play can broaden the knowledge and analysis of the personalities of each character, their actions, and the setting of the play. While reading the play, the themes that we had to identify and take notes on in the reading journal were the relationships between men and women, patriarchy and feminism, citizenship, law and the state, connections between all three units, and what I have found interesting in the play.
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Other than individually analyzing Antigone’s background and themes, we had also done context presentations, similar to A Dolls’ House. Different groups were assigned different topics to cover that relates to Antigone, which includes Ancient Greece (in the Classical period), Ancient Greek Drama, Sophocles, Antigone, The Oedipus Cycle (the Theban plays) and Seven Against Thebes, Productions and Adaptations, and Robert Fagles and Translation. For my group, we had worked on explaining the different productions and adaptations of Antigone, and through this process, I had found it interesting about how there are many different depictions of Antigone from different productions.
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