Antigone Feminist Analysis

How would one define a woman? Would it be with characteristics such as strong, independent, and superior? The chances are, throughout history’s male dominant societies, the probability would be slight. Those would be characteristics describing a man. The Greeks ideal of a woman were weak-willed, obedient, inferior and properties’ of men, resulting in being constantly overshadowed by men. However, do they truly appear to be as frail as culture depicts of them? Although Greece was once a male dominated society, t that time, Sophocles, a Greek playwright presented woman in a much diverse manner of a viewpoint in his play Antigone. In this tragedy, a woman is depicted with characteristics that will seems outrageous, such as being courageous, passionate, and possessing individuality, characteristics that are no less that that of a man. Throughout Sophocles’ tragedy, he presented a contrasting interpretations of the traditional gender roles, exemplifying female power, and gender inequality. Traditional ideal of a woman is portrayed through helpless, submissive Ismene, contrasting …show more content…
As a man with absolute authority, he certainly does not see woman as equals. Creon would relate woman as inferior to men, obedient and submissive. Antigone challenges this perspective of traditional roles of a woman when she goes against the decree of crayon of a burying her brother. Creon is infuriated that someone has broken and challenged his power and authority, and most importantly it was just a mere woman. Creon expects women to be subordinates. Creon feels threatened by the defiance acts of Antigone, that a even a mere woman dares to defy him, scoffing at his authority and power, when in his knowledge, woman is always inferior. In order to regain his authority over all he displays his cruelty with sentencing Antigone’s live burial, to serve as a warning to

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