Along the way in learning Antigone, I know something about Greek theatre. It always plays with the fate as the main issue. However fate here is not a positive thing. It just about dead which one would fear in hearing it. As in Antigone the word fate has been rewrite a few times and it shows that ancient society really concern about it.
As for Antigone, her fate is nothing to her as she has done a right thing even though she has broken Creon’s law. For dead is nothing because she has set her mind that god will give her better life after the dead. She also willing to accept her fate because she knows god laws is everything in this world. This opinion has been supported by Tiresias who warned Creon for his ridiculous action and decision. Tiresias has warned Creon that he is wrong and what Antigone has done is right in the eyes of god. He also stated to Creon that a fate will come upon him if he still sticks to the punishment to Antigone. All this shows that the word fate plays an important role in theatre and has its own meaning.
As for me, this kind of specific word has made the play called Antigone interesting in analyzing it. Further more it make learner thinks twice in giving a meaning for certain word. As for me, it makes me more careful in analyzing the language in plays and teaches me to be more creative in thinking. In addition, it also helps me to improve my ability in thinking skill and give more experiences in judging a play. This concept of judging and giving meani9ng give me exact view about life. This means I learn not to judge thing or person in real life as my first expression. Rethinks it and consider your thought back. For me, play has given an impact in my real life.
As a conclusion, the concept of judgment and giving meaning is depending on individual. It up to you to see the play as real life or not. Enjoy!

This week I have learnt the first play which was Antigone. It was an old play. At first, it hard for me to understand it because the arrangement of the sentences is different from nowadays. However, I cannot stop from reading it because it made me wanted to know what happened to the poor girl named Antigone. Actually this play was from the story Oedipus. So I need to know about Oedipus first before I continued with Antigone.
For the first lecture, I just tried to understand the language helped by Dr. Edwin. It was a bored class for me because all the students do not give responded. We do not know what to say because we do not understand. I just love to read it but to analyze it, I purposely said bored. For this week we just finish analyzed quarter of it. I hope we can finish faster.
Antigone was about a girl named Antigone who has been killed because of her own action. She was one of Oedipus child who married his own mother. She has two brothers who died in the war. One protected the country but one was the traitor for the country. The king, who was Antigone uncle decided not to bury the traitor. Antigone decided to bury her brother because she thought it was a duty for the sake of the blood. Because of her action, the king has give commanded to kill her as a punishment.
For me Antigone has done what she should do because as a family we should respect the death. The past is the past. Even though her brother is a traitor, he still family. Furthermore, we as life person should give respect to the death. We are not the one who judges a person fault, it is god’s job. We just do what we need to do and leave the rest to the god.

We have many classes for this semester. As I said earlier in the first journal, one of the classes would be literature class, which has been taught by Dr. Edwin. For this class we have to examine plays which for me it is quiet difficult especially old plays. The languages are different from nowadays language. So, it needs more understanding so I can get the meaning of it. In addition, I also have to translate certain word into nowadays word. For instance, thou in those days are you in nowadays. It just like poetry but a little bit more difficult because a play is a long story.
As for beginner, Dr. Edwin has given us info on theatre in those days such as restoration drama, brechtian and so on. All this information has made me realise that theatre has changed from time to time. They are different in each century. Not only the language, the concept and the way it been present also changed. However, the rules in play are still the same. For instance, soliloquy is still been used until now. By knowing this kind of information has made the students easier to understand a play when they examine them. The difficulty they will face just on the language. It also helps students to dramatise it.
Dr. Edwin also stated for me the role of a good play. He gave information about this to help the students analyse a play. It also helps me a lot. By knowing the characteristics of a good play, I confidently can say that one play is good. By the time when I want to see a play, I can choose whether it is worth or not. It also helps in criticise a play because I can criticise it according to this traits. It makes my reason sensible.
As for conclusion, this first week lecture has helped me a lot in knowing what play is. I hope the next lecture I can gain more knowledge about it. Even though my heart says it hard, still I need to try my best.