Antigone begins..........

On Wednesday, 1st of August 2007, we learned about the play “Antigone” in the class. It was so nice of our lecturer to do the reading of the play with us and explained to us line by line the implicit meaning of the dialogues. There were so many implicit that resides in the dialogues that we, students, could not identify until our lecturer pointed out to us the meaning of the certain dialogues. We learned about some literary devices such as foreshadowing and metaphors in the class. Besides that, we also learned to identify the characteristics of the characters in the play through their dialogues. Lecturer taught us the way to identify the characteristics of the characters in the play by giving some hints and clues to us. Lecturer kept on making us to think so that we, readers will be more involved with the text by asking us some questions of why the characters act like the way they did in the play. I felt that by asking questions, the lecturer did really managed to get us to be more involved with the text. I, personally like the way our lecturer tries to get our attention to the text as I felt that this will keep me on track with what we are doing in the class and indirectly I can gain better comprehension on the text.
But the one thing that caught my attention the most in reading the text is the usage of the word “wisdom”, “wise”, “folly”, “foolishness” and “fool” in the text. All these words were in used for so many times in the text. I did not notice this at first until our lecturer highlighted those words to us and asked us to think about the usage of those words in the text. Soon, I realized that this play revolved around foolishness versus wisdom. These two words are very contrasting in this play. Only then, I realized that all those five words have their own different meaning that connotes in them. Although wise and wisdom sound almost the same, but actually they are of different meanings. Only after the explanations given by our lecturer, I realized that words can be so sophisticated.
All in all, the lesson was interesting as I had indulged myself in a lot of deep thinking. I love to think as thinking brings me closer to the subject that I am studying. Finally, I realized that by thinking, I am actually learning!