Girl power
The girl is portrayed as a symbol of feminine revolt. Unlike other women in the play, she accepts to sacrifice her life for the patriarchal society in which she is imprisoned. She does not just accept rules because she is a woman, but challenges authorities to their eyes. When her father dies, she takes that responsibility to go back to Thebes to look for her brothers. She as well refuses to leave the body of her brother to be eaten by scavengers (Sophocles, 2012). Even if a law had been passed against it, she goes on to bury him. Her sister Ismene warns her in the prolog that they are just weak women and cannot stand to the men-folk, but she just turns cold on her. She goes on to fight to the bitter end. She argues that her actions …show more content…
This part of her declaration is what forms the major part of the play. This stubborn loyalty becomes her tragic error as it is what causes her death. Although so she never regrets. For her, family devotion is very important (Chanter & Kirkland, 2014). We see the way she accompanies her father and becomes a companion in exile. When her father dies, she comes to look for her brothers to stand for the kingdom of their father. At the end when the brothers kill themselves, she takes it to be her responsibility to honor them with burials. She is too much devoted to her family unlike her sister Ismene. In the end, she agrees to sacrifice her life because of the …show more content…
Although the author does not give her much weight, her presence seems to be of importance, and she is a symbol of the legacy of shame caused by Oedipus’s horrible mistakes. He laments the life of humiliation his daughters will lead and ironically gets Creon promise to take care of them. At Colonus, Oedipus is graced with Antigone’s presence. This shows that she was of importance to him. Once the father dies, she has to find someone to take the throne. She goes to Thebes to look for her brothers. The way she behaves shows that she is not an easy woman. In the play Antigone, she is promoted to the protagonist, which is not easy (Söderbäck,
The girl is portrayed as a symbol of feminine revolt. Unlike other women in the play, she accepts to sacrifice her life for the patriarchal society in which she is imprisoned. She does not just accept rules because she is a woman, but challenges authorities to their eyes. When her father dies, she takes that responsibility to go back to Thebes to look for her brothers. She as well refuses to leave the body of her brother to be eaten by scavengers (Sophocles, 2012). Even if a law had been passed against it, she goes on to bury him. Her sister Ismene warns her in the prolog that they are just weak women and cannot stand to the men-folk, but she just turns cold on her. She goes on to fight to the bitter end. She argues that her actions …show more content…
This part of her declaration is what forms the major part of the play. This stubborn loyalty becomes her tragic error as it is what causes her death. Although so she never regrets. For her, family devotion is very important (Chanter & Kirkland, 2014). We see the way she accompanies her father and becomes a companion in exile. When her father dies, she comes to look for her brothers to stand for the kingdom of their father. At the end when the brothers kill themselves, she takes it to be her responsibility to honor them with burials. She is too much devoted to her family unlike her sister Ismene. In the end, she agrees to sacrifice her life because of the …show more content…
Although the author does not give her much weight, her presence seems to be of importance, and she is a symbol of the legacy of shame caused by Oedipus’s horrible mistakes. He laments the life of humiliation his daughters will lead and ironically gets Creon promise to take care of them. At Colonus, Oedipus is graced with Antigone’s presence. This shows that she was of importance to him. Once the father dies, she has to find someone to take the throne. She goes to Thebes to look for her brothers. The way she behaves shows that she is not an easy woman. In the play Antigone, she is promoted to the protagonist, which is not easy (Söderbäck,