I think Crouching Tiger was probably the first tragic story I ever saw with a female antiheroine. The movie was quite important to me in that sense, and possibly even causal (I'm not entirely sure why I became fixated on tragic antiheroines from very early on, but I did)
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okay this is one of my pet peeves, but the thing about ANTIGONE is that antigone is not the tragic heroine of ANTIGONE creon is
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antigone is the force of moral clarity upon which the ship of pragmatic statecraft shatters she suffers no tragedies; she lives according to her righteous principles creon, on the other hand--
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my understanding is that generally the Greek view is centered around the oikos—the male-centered family—and so Antigone was “in the right” to disobey Creon and bury the body of Polunikes, and that Creon was the bad guy for not showing respect for his fellow Achaian
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