Antigone Male Vs Female Roles
...s looked at as holding power and running the government. Many religious and other poets were always men and never women. So many of the character in this play are raised with that mindset. That is why they find it hard to believe, that a women would defy the government by burying her family when it was forbidden. Gender plays a role in that, because none of the men in power think of women as the one that could be the culprit. So their male gender orientated minds actually blind there senses into investigating who had done this, if no one had seen Antigone. We can also see in the words and descriptions that Creon uses while talking to his son and other men of the government how he feels about women. While speaking he says “never lose your sense of judgment over a woman”, and then continues by calling women “worthless”. That alone gives us a quick and to the point view inside Creon’s own mind and his belief’s about women. He looks at them as property and not worth talking to in a high level of intellect. He then continues to compare a woman to “mortal enemy” and to “let her go”. In the previous conversation with Ismene, Creon does not even recognize Antigone as a person but as someone who doesn’t even exist. As he states on line 640 of page 1022. Another issue where gender plays a role is after Creon has spoken to Antigone and about the charges and he assumes she will cry or break down, but she doesn’t. She keeps here ground and stands behind what she did 100 percent, giving the female gender a voice in the current society. That she can die as a hero. She is on one side of the gender battle in this play. Creon assumes he is in power and that no can threaten that, especially a woman. Then Antigone does just that and even when fasted with death keeps her ground. Allowing for the readers and viewers to feel for her and female’s in general that they can stand up to males. This clash between the too is a cover up for the internal conflict in this play. This as I stated above is the male vs. female battle. The two main characters are Creon and Antigone. Each representing their own side and its views. Creon being the over power, eco centric male. Who feels that no one is above him and that he can do what he wants. Then Antigone plays the role of the female, who won’t stand around and just follow tradition like many women did. She for one wants to threaten the male society. Her role is to let men realize that women are real people and not just “pieces of meat”, and that they are just as equal to the high men of the government. Also in the play we see one more conflict. The generation gap has a small role in this play. While Creon speaks to his son about Antigone and how she will die and she is worth nothing, in pages 1026 to 1027. Haemon speaks to his father about how he is wrong and those men of his age view things differently, that what Antigone has gone she should deserve a crown as the people see it. He tells his own father that “it’s no disgrace for a ma...