SCR 10-12-12/Sentry's Description of Antigone

The governing metaphor in this passage is, "like a bird come back to an empty nest, peering into its nest, and all the babies gone." This quote is saying that like a bird with all its babies gone, Antigone is the bird and Polynices is the babies. Antigone is very much like a bird in more ways than you would initially think from reading this quote. She is also like a bird because a mother bird is loyal to her babies just as Antigone is loyal to her brother. This passage reveals that Antigone's character is loyal and true to her family and to herself. This moment is significant to her character development because she finds out how much she really cares about Polynices and how loyal she is to her family. She realizes what she really cares for and just how much she cares for it. This moment is also important to the development of the themes in the play because it starts a whole avalanche in different themes throughout the book. One of the most important things it creates is that since she is caught, she is brought back to Creon, and Creon is very surprised because she is a woman. This is the theme that men were stronger, faster, and overall more important than women.

-John-Michael Osley