“As we know the writer is a prophet of his time,” started Sophokles. My motivation for writing Antigone was to question a traditional Ancient Greek Society pulled down by its own contradictions. The Ancient Greek civilization was a Society burden by its customs and traditions, despite its political and intellectual success. It was a society that held women in a very low standard. Boys were preferred to girls. Ismene, during her argument with her sister Antigone, gave a slight picture of that sad reality: “we are girls. Girls cannot force their way against men”. He paused, glanced at me, and furthered “women’s role was limited to follow the will of men. They were not allowed to express their opinion. In that scene, you would notice that it is
