# Sophocles vs. Deraspe: Analyzing the Modern Antigone
> Explore how Sophie Deraspe’s 2019 film appropriates Sophocles’ Antigone to address the refugee crisis, digital resistance, and modern bureaucratic tragedy.

Tags: antigone, sophocles, sophie-deraspe, literary-analysis, film-adaptation, english-extension, greek-tragedy, comparative-study
## Slide 1: Introduction to Antigone Adaptations
* Analysis of Sophocles' original text (441 BC) versus Sophie Deraspe’s 2019 film appropriation.
* Keywords: Ancient archetype, modern tragedy, Linda Hutcheon's framework.

## Slide 2: Comparative Summary of Works
* **Sophocles:** Theocentric focus on divine law (Physis) vs. civic order (Nomos). Features a princess and a traitor's unburied body.
* **Deraspe:** Bureaucratic focus on sovereignty vs. refugee crisis. Features a refugee and threatened deportation.

## Slide 3: Evolution of the Medium
* Ancient Greece used the Greek Chorus as a physical communal moral voice.
* The digital age utilizes social media and film to scale collective resistance exponentially.

## Slide 4: Critical Reading – The Politics of the 'Foreigner'
* Discussion of Bonnie Honig’s 'Antigone, Interrupted'.
* Sophocles depicts a princess within the system, while Deraspe depicts a marginalized refugee fighting against a system that criminalizes speaking out.

## Slide 5: The 'Quiet Violence' of Modern Tragedy
* Ancient tragedy is visceral, public, and involves the destruction of royal houses (blood).
* Modern tragedy is bureaucratic, involving minimalist silence and 'social death' or erasure by the state.

## Slide 6: Conclusion – The Palimpsest
* Adaptation as a creation in its own right.
* Concepts: Transition from stone tablets to computer screens; deportation as the modern equivalent of social death.
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