Femininity In Antigone

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In calling Antigone both guilty for literally breaking a law and for showing her hubris, Creon begins to become irrational when he feels that his power is being threatened, shown through the first signs of hesitancy about Ismene’s sentence to death in even the Chorus; thus, he is revealed as more aggressive, temperamental, and angry seeing as he is unable to control what comes out of his mouth in his immature arguments. Creon also depicts himself as childish and prideful in his lack of arguments, claiming that he “will not be ruled by a woman” solely to protect his ego and prove that he’s more powerful than Antigone, a woman (525). In contrast, Creon thinks of himself very highly and as a representative of the gods themselves, revealing, to him, qualities of being rational and an even-handed ruler working towards the best interest of the polis; this is depicted as he continues to believe that the two brothers are unequal and that “one of them deserves disgrace” in order to honor the one who truly defended the polis and uphold the gods’ wishes (516).
Antigone can be seen as the hero in that she is not only standing against her kurios and the views of basically the entire land with courage, but she is also carrying out the wish of …show more content…
She wants to die with Antigone and “sanctify [their] dead” (545), however, Antigone won’t allow this mainly because she wants to take all of the glory for herself. Their views of death differ greatly in that Ismene sees death as a loss and something that is final, depicted when she talks about how she wouldn’t want to live without Antigone; on the contrary, Antigone views death as an exit into something greater and as something insignificant to the death of a soul as seen when she speaks about her soul already being dead, “gone to help those who died before [her] (548,
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