Loyalty In Sophocles Antigone

Circa 441 B.C, an author by the name of Sophocles obliviously altered the future. He constructed a play precisely molded by pure creative genius which possessed the longevity to outlast the dinosaurs. It entails a descriptive fictional tragedy revolving around a character referred to as Antigone; a character cemented in a tornado of calamitous events which would reign and present themselves after centuries of Sophocles demise. Similarly to Sophocles his play, Antigone, possesses another structure of literacy which has remained almost immortal in culture and the lives of the World: Gender Criticism. This play unfolds around the city of Thebes, ancient Greece. This society was entirely patriarchal. Unfortunately, Thebes was under the power of Creon. Creon cherishes loyalty and order above all and cannot bear to be denied any more than he can bear to watch the laws of the state defied. He also minimalizes woman and portrays them as much less capable as that of a man. Antigone has two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, of which a fatal fight occurs. This disastrous altercation leaves both of her brothers dead. Creon rules that only Eteocles is to be offered a proper burial while

If she were a man the sentence most likely would have not been as serious. She was a strong woman who didn’t take no for an answer and stood up and fought for her believes. She was treated like she was stupid and nothing by the men society being that all men thought they were superior. She was told by Ismene, “We are only women; we cannot fight with men, Antigone.” (Antigone Prologue). There were no boundaries for Antigone. She defied Creon’s rule and sculpted eternity for generations to later exist. She went against not only a man, but a ruler’s order and committed a great crime. She was fearless of the death sentence and focused primarily on the magnification of the equality of the two