Views on Antigone: Transgression as a Mandate from Sophocles to Marguerite Yourcenar Authors Montserrat Gallart i Sanfeliu Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Keywords: transgression, freedom, mercy, conscience, tyranny Abstract Antigone, the paradigmatic victim of a very concrete form of male violence, is presented to us, in Sophocles, the Greek cinema of the 20th century, as well as in Marguerite Yourcenar's short story, as a firm woman, convinced of her righteousness. Her decision to bury her condemned brother, in opposition to the established powers that be, makes her a transgressive heroine. Hers is an example of total love with a tragic conclusion, and her actions show the loneliness of those who love alone. As other heroines of Greek tragedies —Electra, Clytaemnestra—, she completely embraces her destiny and refuses to play the social ace that she might have been dealt. Keeping her essence, Yourcenar’s Antigone has jumped forward in time and has adapted to the century in which it was written. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2012-11-05 Issue No. 18 (2012): Desorden y transgresión en el mundo antiguo Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
