Antígona Gelada: A gnostic manifesto
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i21.41432Keywords:
Liberty, Theatre, Armando Nascimento Rosa, Antígona Gelada, Antígone, GnosticismAbstract
The present study aims to observe the points of connection between Sophocles’ Antigone and Armando Nascimento Rosa’s Antígona Gelada in light of a Gnostic understanding of the myth. This analysis is supported by an interview conducted with the latter author (January 2021) and by the study of works on Greek tragedy, science fiction, and Gnosticism. Noting that the play Antígona Gelada stems from the same archetypal nature as Sophocles’ Antigone, the first is analyzed as a dramatic reception of the Sophoclean myth in the light of a radical Gnosticism, as outlined by Harold Bloom in his various works on the subject.
It is concluded that the Gnostic influence in Antígona Gelada reveals, through the protagonist’s archetype, an ontological discourse on the inadequacies of the human condition. Despite indicating a departure from the materialist interpretations of the Antigone myth in the modern period, this influence makes Antigone confront the polis with an alternative concept of empathy, one not inscribed in the ideological apparatuses of a democratic state, thus maintaining a political discourse.
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