Arch-Conspirator

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You definitely don't need to read the play to enjoy this novella, but I think it will help reinforce the themes and you'll get a better understanding of what Roth was trying to do with the characters. I really enjoyed this retelling of it, and I definitely related a lot more to this version of her than the original (from what I can remember about her at least). Overall, I quite enjoyed this quick retelling of Antigone, and I quite liked the futuristic spin that Roth added to it! Rare for me to say as I love a short book, but this just needed room for all the elements to breathe more and be explored deeper.

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It was certainly very unique and inventive, but the characters were a little surface level and felt less like a true reimagining of these infamous figures and more like they had been brought back to life with only their most basic character traits and sufferings intact.This novella blends heavy science fiction dystopia – think reproductive control and consciousness – with Greek mythology. The now deceased Oedipus and Jocasta had their children this way, and so Antigone and her family are not only marked by their parents radical past but considered soulless vessels (Oedipus was a radical who believed ‘ Immortality…should be for everyone’ and made the soul collection available to all). Somehow I haven’t read anything by Veronica Roth since Divergent, even though I have another eARC still haha. Arch-Conspirator” is different from “ Divergent” in many ways, mostly because it is based on the Greek myth. VERONICA ROTH is the New York Times best-selling author of P oster Girl, Chosen Ones, Arch-Conspirator , the Divergent series, and the Carve the Mark duology.

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Antigone works well, first, because it is a play, and second because the audience is standing outside the action observing it. All three women were quite unique in their backstories, their current situations, and their view of their own futures which was a great start but that was it, a great start. Readers familiar with Sophocles' original story will have an extra dimension of appreciation, but those without that background will still race through the pages to learn Antigone's fate. I thought it was awesome that the author managed to explore such emotions with such a short book, so that was what bumped it from a 4 to 4. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.One man, High Commander or no, doesn’t have the right or the power to declare cruelty to be morality just because something has affected him personally. How can humans survive without tough control, he feels, and see’s Antigone’s actions as a threat against his rule that could incite public opinion against him. Roth's performance is intelligent but less emotive: set in a future dystopian world, this makes use of Creon's one-note politics and takes up questions of female bodily autonomy.

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The reason why I’m putting this down is because, in the first 30 pages, there were elements that made me uncomfortable, especially as a follower of Christ. Though while it was occasionally cumbersome, at least Arch-Conspirator is a bold and daring attempt that hits some fantastic moments of political struggles between characters as Antigone’s actions become a catalyst for a possible revolution in dystopian Thebes. Important details of people, events, and places from Antigone are woven into the greater dystopian backdrop which includes exploration of subjects like love, freedom, duty and power, both on personal and societal levels. I'm coming at this with absolutely no working knowledge of Antigone besides vaguely recognizing the name via cultural osmosis, which is to say I have no idea what the original story is (but many reviews seem to say it's a very faithful adaptation). I had difficulty sifting through all the elements of Greek mythos and science fiction to make a cohesive story.I hadn't been too familiar with Antigone before reading this, but after reading a summary after finishing this novella, I only appreciated how Roth used the source material even more.

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in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. With their father gone, their uncle Kreon sits in the throne, wielding his power on his family as much as on his countrymen. She’s trying to tackle the patriarchy and the oppression/controlling women’s bodies but she’s not saying anything new about it. Souls can be embodied only by mixing the purified genes of the dead, who are then reborn via the surrogacy of the living.These people now survive through gene editing and are under the strict rule of Kreon, Antigone’s uncle.