Women who are Deterritorialisated by Mouring: Antigone

Abstract

This study aims to bring a new understanding to Sofokleks' Antigone by using critical discourse analysis. Antigone is accepted as a threshold text which emerges during the time the society organized at the collective level transforms into a system of State. This study claims that the tensions caused by these different types of transformations are symbolized through the concepts of ritual and ceremony. Bearing this claim and argument in mind the aim of this study is to read the rituals which are the cultural heritage of humanity together with the deeds of the female character Antigone who gave her name to the play and to explain these deeds and their consequences with the processes of rituals. The theoretical explanations on the concept of ritual form the core of the critical discourse analysis used to examine Antigone text. The claim of this study is that Antigone a female rebellious character remains at the liminal state and as a result of this she gains the skills to design destructive acts by being liberated from all social contracts and identities. This destructive state provides a new possibility of reading on social tensions observed during the time of transformation.