The Play Antigone

The assignment comes from the play Antigone (Sophocles). You can pick any topic from the play you would like to write about.  Your main goal in every literary criticism paper is to analyze your text(s). In other words, your aim is to discover, refine, and support your own interpretations — not summaries or translations! — through a technique Writing Manifesto 2013 1 which we will call “close reading.” Please remember, then, that the heart of every paper you write for this course should consist of careful, detailed, and nuanced close reading.