Question

why does Antigone ask the guard to write to her fiancee: "I don't even know what I'm dying for; I'm afraid.”

Answer 1

Antigone is one in a series of Anouilh’s plays based on Greek mythology. Antigone is a child-woman, too young, too thin for adulthood, yet too hard-headed to be treated as a child. She repeatedly proclaims that she is far too young for an early death, and the other characters. Antigone’s final speech is very strange. She says that she would not have suffered her ordeal for a husband but will suffer it for her brother because he is not replaceable. Yet we must remember that she is martyring herself for a dead brother, not, as she suggests, for a live one. Her final, puzzling speech may suggest that her value judgments have become distorted.