![]() ![]() ![]() Although not many people are 5-alpha-reductase hermaphrodites, many have struggled with a negotiation of identity. By situating this struggle within recognizable historic events, Eugenides enables the reader to identify with Cal and his struggle for identity and self-confidence. Instead of focusing on genetic differences, Eugenides depicts Cal as a third generation American from an immigrant family, struggling to define himself with respect to culture, gender, and sexuality. How does Eugenides make Cal's very specific condition universally relatable? As a character, Antigone is also a symbol of female power and rebellion, however, and works as a model/foil for Calliope's struggles. Much like Middlesex, Antigone contains themes of incest and monstrosity, since Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus' mother. What is the significance of Antigone within Middlesex?Ĭalliope and the Object perform Antigone as part of their English class. ![]()
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