POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polynices, Ismene, Cliffsnotes
21 Oct 2014
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Tragic citizenship (any point i can think of) Tragic: causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow, of or relating to tragedy in a literary work. Citizenship: the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen, the character of an individual viewed as amember of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen. Tragic citizenship: the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen that result in extreme distress or sorrow. (probably the type featured in antigone, associating rights, privileges, and duties of citizenship with extreme distress or sorrow. Antigone"s case of the above: damned if you do and damned if you do. She considers it to be a betrayal of polyneices if he does not receive a proper burial. However, at the same time, creon and the powers that be declare it consider it to be a betrayal of thebes if polyneices is buried.
