ABSTRACT
In Sophoclean tragedy, the figure of Antigone incarnates a concrete singularity and its ties with a concrete collectivity. This reveals itself in the actions of Antigone, and also in her words about the citizens and ancestors of the kingdom of Thebes. Antigone's discourse is simple, always with content and poetic style. In general, the chorus approaches Antigone's manner of speaking, but it is also an arbiter which is no longer free: it represents the effects of a fear of the tyrant. Antigone, faithful to herself, always preserves her own style. Love was the legislator: a love neither voluntary nor obligated, but one of peaceful coexistence, one of common sense and of the measure necessary for life. Various feminine figures have represented it: Aphrodite, Demeter, Anne and Mary. As Hegel writes, woman and man lose their identity in the family. The labor of love does not return as a for-itself for either one: it becomes children, the ownership of goods.
