"Antigone"

In Ancient Greece, women had the traditional roles of an obedient housewife in their casual lives. These roles where what the men thought as just. In many tragedies of Greek women, the woman appears as strong and defiant and able to filter out matters that would take a lot of courage. The characterization of Antigone in Sophocles Antigone challenges ones assumptions about the roles and behavior of the typical Greek women. In her insubordination of both Creon and his edict she is challenging tyranny and her kin.

The portrayal of the male woman as heroine was fully developed in Sophocles Antigone. (Pomeroy, 83) Although ancient Greece was a male-dominate society, Antigone portrays a women as being strong and competent of making wise decisions. Traditionally women are characterized as worn down and subordinate. Through the character of Antigone, Sophocles displays a women going against the traditional views of society. Sophocles uses Ismene as a representation of what every woman in Thebes should be like. Antigone has the opposite viewpoint of Ismene as to rather or non to defy Creon. You would bury him when it is forbidden to Thebes (Sophocles, 83). If every women in Thebes were to be like Ismene, and most of them are, then nobody would stand up for what they believe in.



For Antigone, death was a small price to pay off for what she believed in.

Antigone takes on masculine traits in her insubordination of Creon. She shows a defiance of Creons laws in burying Polynices and as a direct communicatory assault on Creon himself. But for it Creon deemed me guilty of error and of delight (Sophocles, 101). Creon becomes angry that a woman questions his sovereignty and condemns her to death fifty-fifty though she was the daughter of his sister, Jocasta. Creon characterizes Antigones burial of...

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