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A Humorous

Distillation of Antigone by Maurice Sagoff This poem is

quite successful in getting the plot across to the reader.

Unfortunatly, that is all he can get across because of his

beleif that, "inside every fat book is a skinny book trying to

get out." Sargoff cannot have character descriptions, themes,

or any real detail in his "skinny book" because of his beleifs.

Sargoff leaves off why Polynices should not be buried
and

why his brother, who is not even menchoned, can be

buried
. This is important to building the feelings of contempt

towards Creon and an understanding of what Antigone is

doing. Also, because this is a "Humorous Distillation," the

tone of the play is lost. Instead of being a dramatic play

about obeying a higher law, it is a comical, rhyming poem

about what happened. This may cause it to lose the impact it

had. Sargoff reduces important and pivotal points in the

story to a sentence such as, "Creon wilts, and tries to bang a

U-ee." This......

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