Antigony..agony as an afterthought?

"make straight your own path to destiny."
this is a bold statement by one Antigone. In these first 400 lines or so, the most consistent picture we see of Antigone is one of intense familial loyalty. Albeit her family, being far from a model of success as one, doesnt deserve that loyalty from her. Nonetheless, antigone develops a rash judgement to risk her life to bury her already disceased brother. In this time and age, the authority of women is pretty much nothing, so any action taken by a women will be looked upon much differently then if a male did the act. The voice of reason spoken into Antigone's seeming madness comes from her sister, the only family that she has left. This is where i belive greif has clouded antigone's better judgement. In her passion, she disregards the fact that she should probably try to salvage the only family remaining to her and not sign her own death warrant. But even after her sister ismene's many admonishments and warnings, this is what Antigone says to her, "make straight your own path to destiny." Destiny is the interesting word her, besides this statement sounding like it is straight from Obama's speech at Grant Park, it carries significance if we note the religous status of the times. The Gods and their relationship with the mortals was much like a dog and his master. If the dog disobeys, he may get a warning. Does it again and there is punishment. People were kept in fear of the Gods and took actions of nature or stupidity in this case to be messages directly from the Gods. In her statement ..."your own path to destiny.", antigone seems to suggest that possibly their entire family are doomed to similar fates of death, thus she would pefer to go out doing right by her brother. Thus all in all, from my prespective, Antigone's actions are rash and hasty. But i also take into account her emotional state and the times. So in a way it is understandable but not beleivable; such tragedy compiled all at once seems to be a thing of the theatre more prominently during those times.

1 friend request...DENIED

Now having a picture of the real and true bartleby, as described by the big boss dog, i am not sure if he would be one such a person to set up and use a facebook account. But i will forgo my opinion and imagine bartlebys facebook. Pertaining to the narration of the story and the method with which the boss does find out most of the information about his scriveners, it is aonly appropriate that i take on the boss and his visage and one day happen upon Bartlebys desk and his laptop which he forgot to shut down. Minimized window....Facebook-Bartleby-Profile...
The first thing that meets the eye and struck me(the boss) as particularly odd was his profile picture. It was a picture of the meeting of two walls into a corner and a hand in the foreground for perspective. Bartlebys hand, i imagine. Oh, i must mention that i am looking back on this in hindsight with a slightly tainted vision of things given Bartlebys recent passing. His status on the last day was "I WILL NEVER". when i looked on his status history, almost each one for about four months preceding was "i would prefer not to". which, now makes my laugh as i reminesce on my interactions with him. moving down to the friends list i was both shocked and then not so shocked to find that he only had 10 friends. Ginger Nut, turkey, and nippers i saw there, and the rest seemed to be family. On the describe your friends application Bartleby was in one word,"passive". I disagreed with that but for the lack of a better word, i could see how one would say so. And as i continued to browse i was overcome with sadness and remorse for Bartleby in his death. I wished he were still here, although some of his mannerisms i could do without. I felt a surge of much feared guilt, that perhaps i could be in part responsible for bartlebys death, or on the other side that i could have been the catalyst that could have saved him. But no. i consoled myself in the fact that i am only a man doing his work and i should not be to blame. i could read no longer so i logged off.