A Study On Judith Butler's Antigone Image

Judith Butler is one of the most famous contemporary western ideologists and philosophers whose research mainly involves identity,gender,subject and other fields.In her book "Antigone's Claim" published in 2000.from the perspective of contemporary theory.Butler,on the basis of criticizing the interpretations made by Hegel theory and Lacan theory,reinterpreted the ancient Greek tragedy "Antigone"written by Sophocles and gave the protagonist Antigone an explanation in a brand-new image.This article made an overview and summary on butler's interpretation of Antigone's characters,and abstracted Antigone's particularity in Butler's book from three perspectives of discourse behavior,special gender identity and the real appeal behind the behavior.After further analysis,it could be found that Antigone's crime was not in the implementation of burial behavior but in the embezzlement of Creon's power through discourse,thus directly realizing the rebellion against the king's authorities or authorities of city-state.Provocative behavior and words made Antigone possess male gender traits besides female gender,and the ambiguous gender identity made her not be accepted in the normative family field.As a product of incest.Antigone herself also had incest tendency,and her double incest status made her rejected by the symbolic order.However,Antigone was not willing to be eliminated by this injustice.She realized the transcendence of kinship order with incest taboo as the core and fight against the symbolic order through her own death,which was Antigone's real motivation.Based on the reinterpretation of Antigone's discourse behavior,gender identity and the appeal behind the behavior,Butler succeeded in giving the classical tragic figures of ancient Greece with modern significance so as to expose the limitations of cultural identity and strive for the possibility of approval and the reasonable space for the existence of the contemporary new family form.