Antigone As A Feminist Play

Feminism is a large issue in present day while it was not such an important idea throughout history. Man was historically stronger, smarter, and more useful than woman. As it turns out, that idea is incorrect although at the time that “Antigone” by Jean Anouilh was written, this idea was widely accepted by both man and woman. The play itself is about breaking what is law to do what is right, but under all of that lies the true theme of man vs. woman. Antigone is set out to see how far a woman can push a man before a war is started.

Antigone being written takes a reader back to about 441 BC. At this time, women did not have rights, and women’s rights were not even a thought. Women accepted that they were less than men, and at this time in history it was not

He is not happy by any means but lets her tell her story before deciding what to do with the blatant display of clashing with authority. He knows that she is proud, and that she doesn’t care about his authority and that seems to be what matters most. “The woman disobeys the King” is more prominent of an issue to Creon than it is the main offense of burying who was not to be buried. No “woman will get the better” of him, because that would be worse than a man. The idea that a women broke the law and that “women must obey such as men” with no “special treatment” (…..). Creon states this as if to say that women ever got special treatment in that time. The fact was, women didn’t usually break the law making times they got punished few and far between. Women had a proper place in society, and doing a man’s job wasn’t one of them. While Creon is almost offended that a woman would produce such an act, he did promise that whomever buried the man would be stoned to death. He intends to keep his promise even though a woman is who broke the law. Not just a woman, a woman full of pride, a