The daughter of a man who commits incest and is sent into exile versus one of the most popular monarchs in the history of England. A woman who defies the ruler of her country versus a woman who is the ruler of her country. A fictional character from a play written in ancient Greece versus a real woman who lived in England in the 16th century. It doesn’t sound like these two characters have much in common - but they do! Both Elizabeth and Antigone felt isolated and like outsiders due to the scandals that their fathers had brought upon their families, and both women didn’t listen to others, instead they did whatever they wanted.
Antigone and Elizabeth I resemble each other because they are both daughters of kings, but they feel like outsiders in their own societies and suffer isolation and problems due to the actions of their fathers. Oedipus, Antigone’s father and
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When this is discovered, the family is disgraced, Jocasta (the wife and mother of Oedipus) kills herself, and Oedipus leaves Thebes in disgrace. Antigone talks about her loneliness by saying, “I have been a stranger here in my own land. All my life the blasphemy of my birth has followed me.” (Antigone, page 226). Antigone doesn’t feel like she is ever fully accepted into society despite the fact that she is a princess. Another example of a problem caused by Antigone’s father is that Antigone believes she needs to disobey the orders of the new king and bury one of her brothers. If Oedipus had not been exiled for incest and had remained as king, Antigone’s brothers would not have killed each other in a fight for the throne and Antigone would not need to go against social norms to fight for