Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father's vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.Īntigone’s parents – Oedipus and Jocasta – are dead. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. But maybe in a different way than you’d think."Stunningly performed by narrators Dion Graham and January LaVoy.together, they capture the propulsive motion and ominous atmosphere of this compelling story."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) But it’s also about a young woman navigating the claustrophobic space that society allows her to the best of her ability, and finding a way to do something powerful despite being powerless. (“I could become something greater than my body simply by allowing myself to use it.”) At one point in my retelling, Antigone tells her brother, “Sometimes I stare into the future and I don’t like anything I see.” Her struggle in the story is with how to give her life meaning-not the meaning that other people assign to it, but the meaning that she assigns to it.
In Arch-Conspirator, I wanted to explore this self-destructive tendency a little more than the play is able to. And in Antigone, she’s quick to discard her life in favor of giving her brother proper burial rites. In Oedipus at Colonus, she communicates some of that when she says she’d rather be buried with her father than continue on without him. She’s been told from birth that her life isn’t worth as much as other people’s because of the “curse” that she bears.
But what struck me when I first reread it to prepare for this retelling was Antigone’s vulnerability. Those elements are certainly in the play. Antigone is typically presented as a kind of ass-kicking feminist heroine, defying a system that devalues her.
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