History YMMV / Antigone

* ValuesDissonance: Modern audiences cannot grasp Antigone's sense of honour and why the burial ritual is so important -- more important than preserving life.

** Alternatively, her disillusionment with life in the Anouilh play could be symptomatic of depression.

* NamesTheSame:
** No, Creon's wife is not the same Eurydice whom Orpheus loved and tried to rescue from the Underworld.
** Nor is Creon the same man as the guy from Creator/{{Euripides}}' ''Theatre/{{Medea}}''--that guy was the king of Corinth, not Thebes.

* VindicatedByHistory: Bernard Knox, the American classicist, noted that during World War II, when the Nazis put DeadGuyOnDisplay of partisans and resistants, and in the immediate aftermath, Antigone found new resonance and the Greek heroine was now seen as a woman who defies corrupt authority to honour her discredited family, claiming to follow the moral code rather than that of the state.

** Antigone's behavior to Ismene when Ismene tries to take the blame for the burial with her. Is she being a {{Jerkass}} who cuts all ties to her just because Ismene doesn't fit her high standards, and a {{Hypocrite}} given that she is willing to die for her love of one sibling despite his crimes while hating another? Or is she pulling a ShooTheDog, knowing that Creon now believes Ismene is responsible for the burial and will kill her too, and the only way she can protect her is by making it clear through her anger that Ismene had nothing to do with it?

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Antigone can be this when you consider Creon's position -- he ''is'' the king of Thebes, and Antigone openly disrespects him, knowingly putting at risk that his people respect him as their leader, which Creon definitely needs to keep up a stable system. He doesn't want to kill her because he doesn't understand her motivation; he insists on carrying out the ''law'', the basis of his state's functionality, which he can't set aside for one of his family members or else people will lose faith in him. Antigone doesn't pay one thought to the state or Creon's dilemma here because of her enormous {{Pride}}.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Antigone can be this when you consider Creon's position -- he ''is'' the king of Thebes, and Antigone openly disrespects him, knowingly putting at risk that his people respect him as their leader, which Creon definitely needs to keep up a stabil system. He doesn't want to kill her because he doesn't understand her motivation; he insists on carrying out the ''law'', the basis of his state's functionality, which he can't set aside for one of his family members or else people will lose faith in him. Antigone doesn't pay one thought to the state or Creon's dilemma here because of her enormous {{Pride}}.

* VindicatedByHistory: Bernard Knox, the American classicist, noted that during World War II, when the Nazis put DeadGuyOnDisplay of partisans and resistants, and in the immediate aftermath, Antigone found new resonance and the Greek heroine was now seen as a woman who defies corrupt authority to honour her discredited family, claiming to follow her own code rather than that of the state.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Antigone. DoomedMoralVictor who just wanted peace for her brother, or vain DeathSeeker who cared more about the legend she'd become by rebelling and then becoming a martyr?

* NamesTheSame: No, Creon's wife is not the same Eurydice whom Orpheus loved and tried to rescue from the Underworld.
** Nor is Creon the same man as the guy from {{Euripides}}' ''Theatre/{{Medea}}''--that guy was the king of Corinth, not Thebes.

* MisaimedFandom: The Vichy government allowed the modern version of this play to be performed simply because they thought that Creon was a model leader. [[ThoseWackyNazis Hardly surprising.]]

* Alternatively, her disillusionment with life in the Anouilh play could be symptomatic of depression.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Antigone: DoomedMoralVictor who just wanted peace for her brother or vain DeathSeeker who cared more about the legend she'd be by rebelling and then becoming a martyr?
** Creon: Stubborn KnightTemplar who wanted the best for his city, or crazed tyrant who only cared for the security of his own power?
* MisaimedFandom: The Vichy government allowed the modern version this play to be performed simply because they thought that Creon was a model leader. [[ThoseWackyNazis Hardly surprising.]]
* ValuesDissonance: Modern audiences cannot grasp the sense of honour and why is the burial ritual so important -- more important than preserving life.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Antigone: DoomedMoralVictor who just wanted peace for her brother or vain DeathSeeker who cared more about the legend she'd be by rebelling and then becoming a martyr?

* MisaimedFandom: The Vichy government allowed the modern version this play to be performed simply because they thought that Creon was a model leader. [[ThoseWackyNazis Hardly surprising.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Creon. By the end of the play he's lost his whole family.

* AlasPoorVillain: Creon.

AlasPoorVillain: Creon.
MisaimedFandom: The Vichy government allowed the modern version this play to be performed simply because they thought that Creon was a model leader. [[ThoseWackyNazis Hardly surprising.]]