Antigone

In all stories that we read from the past from authors such as Shakespeare we always get a maiden is despair. The women is never portrayed as strong and independent. The women has always been the one in need of help, the one that is not as respected and most of the time looked down on. This becomes a difference in the play of Antigone. Antigone is a character that is full of life and full of energy. She is a rebel and says what she wants to say when she wants to say it. From the beginning you can notice that she has issues from what has happened to her. The mention of her family, like her brother and her father and mother, it seems to change her life and make her the way she is. The way she speaks she seems very upset and traumatized about her past life. She is willing to stand up to Creon and not accept any of his decisions. She is willing to stand up and speak her own thoughts. She is a women with values and has her own ideas. You can see that she wont let anyone bring her down or turn her ideas around, instead she will say what she wants to say and will do anything make everyone agree with her. Antigone can be seen as a tragic hero. She owns her own life which is something that many women character in plays usually don’t they are meant to be left in the unknown but Antigone makes her own life and decides what she wants and doesn’t let a man take over her life.