Antigone

Antigone One Woman’s Struggle for Equality Throughout the history of ancient Greece, women were treated as second-class citizens in every possible aspect. They were forbidden to own much property, they couldn’t vote, or even debate political issues. Women were supposed to obey men, and agree with everything they said and did. They weren’t even supposed to leave the house without a man’s permission. Their job was to stay home and rear the children. However, in the play Antigone, Antigone goes against the beliefs and defies the powerful tradition of male domination. In the play, Antigone’s life was filled with pain and sorrow. Her father had past away and then her two brothers Eteocles and Polnices fought and ended up killing each other. Even after all of this, Antigone had even more pain to deal with. Although her brother Eteocles had been given a proper burial, which which the gods expected, her brother Polnices had not. This was due to the fact that Antigone’s uncle Creon had become king and forbid and decreed against the burial of Polnices. (Sacks 22) Even though Antigone knows it is against the will of the king, she goes and gives Polnices a proper burial anyway. She acted out antigone, women, even, supposed, burial, polnices, own, men, laws, king, ismene, greek, creon, ancient, values, society, sister, role, proper, play, out, male, defiance, antigone’s, against, way, viewed, uncle, though, tells, ruled, pain, opposite, man’s, influential, greece