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Songs which describe Antigone by Sophocles

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10 Antigone by Sophocles

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III.Level Activities: Soundtrack for Antigone

In this essay, I created a soundtrack of 6 songs, which reflect and accentuate specific events in the play. I will explain my selection and how each song is representing the scene. The songs that I used are all to be found on YouTube. Each song with its cues and displaying corresponding lyrics.

The first song I chose is: “Call me” by Shinedown time: 0:29

The lyrics I want to emphasize in this song are, “I lost my life and a dear friend.” This is related to the lines 56-58 in the Prologue of the play (“I shall lie down with him in death and I shall be as dear to him as he to me.”) This part is showing Antigone who is talking about her dead brother Polyneices.

In this scene she states that she lost him and how she longs to be with him, because she has nothing left. The song lyrics are reflecting exactly what Antigone was talking about. The ‘dear friend’ is Polyneices whom she lost in the war against Eteocles. After that her father, her mother, and her two brothers died, so she has already lost a reason to life for (‘I Lost my life’).

The song really supports the scene, because it shows the pain, but also hints at the will of Antigone to bury her brother even if this involves breaking the rules.

Also, Ismene, who Antigone is talking to in the Prologue, seems impressed by the intense statement, although she still refuses to help her bury Polyneices. The song choice will help to develop the plot because its lyrics and melody underline Antigone’s emotions and desperation.

The second song I chose: “Nothing else matters” by Metallica time: 1:41

This is a more famous song with the important refrain “And nothing else matters.” These lyrics are also related to a statement of Antigone, at the end of the Prologue in lines 64-65. In speaking with Ismene, Antigone asserts, “That must be your excuse, I suppose.

But as for me, I will bury the brother I love.” The song lyrics match Antigone’s mindset so perfectly that one could even fit the line right into the original text; she is willing to break the rules just to bury her brother. Nothing else matters to her at that moment.

Antigone’s mind is made up and nothing is able to veer her off course. The song helps to show this resolve and makes sense of the way Antigone is behaving in the foll.....[read full text]

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The fourth song I chose: “Total eclipse of the heart” by Bonnie Tyler time: 1:37-1:44

The song title already foreshadows that the person who is singing must be grief-stricken and in a dark place. The specific part of the song that relates to a scene of the play is where Bonnie Tyler sings, “And I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever.

And if you’ll only hold me tight, we’ll be holding on forever.” This is exactly what Haemon must have been feeling and thinking when he laid next to Antigone, dying, attempting to hold her close in order to be reunited with her forever. The ‘forever’ in their case is the death of them both.

In the Exodus, the lines 71-76 state, “Desperate against himself, drove it half its length into his own side and fell. And as he died, he gathered Antigone close in his arms again. Choking, his blood bright red on her white cheek. And now he lies dead with the dead, and she is his at last, his bride in the house of dead.” The song lyrics underline Haemon’s desire and need to join Antigone and highlights his desperate attempt to hold her in his arms again, even if it is “in the house of dead.”

The fifth song I chose: “Another one bites the .....

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I have been rash and foolish. I have killed my son and my wife. I look for comfort but my comfort lies here dead. Whatever my hands have touched has come to nothing. Fate has brought all my pride to a thought of dust.” Here, the lyrics and the somber tone of the song, communicate Creon’s level of desperation when realizing that all of his dreams and aspirations have died and crumbled, and that his great empire, which he built with good intentions, is no more than a pile dust / dirt.

The section “my sweetest friend” is thought to relate back to his wife, but also his greater family, including his niece and nephews. One could also imagine that Creon may symbolically address Teiresias with the offer that “you could have it all” if only he could change his prophesy.

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