In the play Antigone, the women are portrayed as weak, they have little to no power, and whilst the beginning of the play suggests that it is only women who are inferior, the sexism starts to change into all people below the royals. Although it is true that women throughout all hierarchy, age and connections, are treated as unequal, the play seems to detour focus off of the inferiority of the women, and focuses it more on the inferiority on anyone below King Creon and his family.
The moral of the story seems to put the spotlight on the ‘Fate versus Destiny’ cliché. Going throughout the story you can see how each character feels about their own control of their fate or destiny. The main character demonstrating this would be King Creon, he believes …show more content…
The way you view yourself is very often majorly different than how others see you, and the characters in this play are perfect examples of this. Starting off with the main example, King Creon, he views himself as almighty, that he is ultimate to anyone, he controls everyone and nobody can question him. On the other hand, in my eyes, I see him as a coward, he can’t take responsibility for his own actions and places the blame on other people too quickly, almost as quick as he takes sides without evidence or sympathy. As all main characters, he does have a major leap of character growth, but only after it’s too late and he has lost his family.
Another character I found interesting was Ismene, the sister of Antigone. She views herself as perfect, she puts herself on a pedestal and makes herself live up to that image she’s created of herself. In a way I feel sorry for her ignorance, I feel as though she has gotten to a certain place where no matter what she needs to keep that image, well she feels like she needs to keep this image. This also makes others view her as vain, ignorant and someone always needing to be in the centre of attention, even if that means throwing yourself under a bus with your sentenced-to-death
The moral of the story seems to put the spotlight on the ‘Fate versus Destiny’ cliché. Going throughout the story you can see how each character feels about their own control of their fate or destiny. The main character demonstrating this would be King Creon, he believes …show more content…
The way you view yourself is very often majorly different than how others see you, and the characters in this play are perfect examples of this. Starting off with the main example, King Creon, he views himself as almighty, that he is ultimate to anyone, he controls everyone and nobody can question him. On the other hand, in my eyes, I see him as a coward, he can’t take responsibility for his own actions and places the blame on other people too quickly, almost as quick as he takes sides without evidence or sympathy. As all main characters, he does have a major leap of character growth, but only after it’s too late and he has lost his family.
Another character I found interesting was Ismene, the sister of Antigone. She views herself as perfect, she puts herself on a pedestal and makes herself live up to that image she’s created of herself. In a way I feel sorry for her ignorance, I feel as though she has gotten to a certain place where no matter what she needs to keep that image, well she feels like she needs to keep this image. This also makes others view her as vain, ignorant and someone always needing to be in the centre of attention, even if that means throwing yourself under a bus with your sentenced-to-death