Role Of Men In Antigone

Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Golding and Antigone, a translated play written by Jean Anouilh are two texts that accurately reflect the role of men and women in society.

Antigone, a translated French play that tells a story of two brothers, Eteocles and Polyniece, that have been killed in a battle which they were leading opposite sides in Thebes’ civil war. Creon declared new ruler of Thebes orders that Eteocles will have a proper honored burial, sanctified by holy rites, whereas Polyniece, the rebel, will not have a proper burial, his body laid unburied to become the food of animals. Antigone and Ismene, sisters of the dead brothers, last children of the ill Oedipus. Antigone and Ismene, one fearless and one submissive. Antigone wishes to properly burry her brother Polyniece by contradicting to Creon edict, whereas Ismene does not follow her sister as she fears the death penalty that would be waiting for her if she went against Creon, her uncle.

Antigone is unpleasant by sight, boney, sallow, pale looking, basically withdrawn in appearance unlike her docile and beautiful sister. Antigone isn’t what one would describe as a desirable woman in her time period. Although all of this is true, Antigone still manages to display the role of feminism in the book, with her boyish physique and her cursing her girlhood, which is a large part of being a woman in today’s society. She is the heroine that stands for what she believes in and always insisting on the pleasure of her desires, as she ignores or more likely refuses to understand the limits placed on her, as her rebel