Antigone
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Antigone
Sophocle's tragic play "Antigone", written in 441 BC, is a theatrical piece of drama. What is history without tragedy, one may ask? And then, one may ask if the tragedy is the only means to change the mentality of the crowd, or to create attitude and roles for different individuals based on sex or other cultural recognized treats? The difference between current time attitude and the past are overwhelmingly different. But such differences could be distinguished even within short historical periods of the near or far past. In Antigone for instance we distinguish a change in the attitude of women towards traditional male demands. Antigone decision to bury her brother against Creon's rule and so to honor him into his death shows a change in the attitude of women towards the absolute rule of a monarch. That Creon doesn't want to yield to such a rebellious act shows the determination of the monarch to keep the male ruling in place. At the same time the fact that people recognize in Antigone act a rightful thing to do means that the popular ideas of a change were already in place.
Antigone did the right thing by defiling Creon's strict orders on burying Polynices because the unalterable laws of the gods and our morals are higher than the blasphemous laws of man...