... against the word of Creon the king of Thebes and buries her brother. Following her act in which she viewed as a just cause, Antigone began to demonstrate her hubris by rebelling against the stereotype women portrayed with passionate outbursts and unconventional behavior. When she began acting in this ... crippled if a woman ever went against them. In the play, we lay witness to Creon's manhood, not just his kingship, become threatened by Antigone's actions. This occurs when she takes center stage and presents formidable challenges to the king and other men around him. She defends her act...

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... on everyday society. Creon believes that all people should obey the laws he has established, even if other beliefs, ethical or spiritual, state otherwise. Antigone, on the other hand, holds the beliefs of the gods in the highest regards. She feels that the laws of the gods should be obeyed ... you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions" (499-505). This is a very important part of this drama. Antigone is going against the will of her King to say that the gods supersede him and because of this, it is okay for her to commit the act ... Creon. ...

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... for a women to disobey, that was unheard of. "What man alive would dare-- ?" In Ancient Greece, freedom and rules were structured and very strict. Antigone, being her own free spirit, could not stick to these limits. Her rebellion against the male theocracy became all the more pressing because of her gender. Says ... Says Ismene: I"d do them (Ismene's deceased family) no dishonor But defy the city? I have no strength for that. (93-94) She also reminds Antigone that they are but mere women and are thus helpless and without power. Ismene reminds her sister that their gender makes them vulne...

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... to rot without a proper burial, she becomes infuriated. She immediately goes to her sister, Ismene, to see is she will help her with the burial. Ismene tells Antigone that she does not want to get involved because she is a woman, and women do not undermine the authority of any man. This can be expressed when Ismene ... with men. Then too, / we"re underlings, ruled by much stronger hands, / so we must submit in this, and things still worse" (ln 74-77). Antigone believes that women do have a voice and that even though they are viewed as inferior by society's standards, they must still do w...

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... of many societies are alike in the form of the inferiority of woman to men. Women have, in some societies, been called servants and slaves. In Sophoclese's, Antigone; the character is a female and she defies the standards and proves that women are not inferior. The standards of this play are very much like the standards of ... earth and is only inferior to the gods above. The king of this play made all the rulings and was never wrong or mistaken, just like when Antigone's exiled brother was killed and the king would not bury him even though he was blood and it was the right thing to do. ...

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... motives for rebellion are quite different. Medea's primary motive is revenge, but she also protests against women's discrimination. This makes her a feminist. Antigone is motivated by the desire to bury her brother. At the same time she protests against unjust and tyrannical governments. However, nowhere does she make ... some cases) even leaving the home. But it is a surprise that a play would feature a woman rebelling against authority: as both Antigone and Medea do. Antigone, of course, rebels by burying the body of Polynices, breaking the laws of Creon. Medea rebels by taking revenge...

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... on him from money to even her diet (the macaroons) and because she is so sheltered, her perception of the world is romanticized. The leading men in Antigone and A Doll's House have similar characterizations. Both Creon and Helmer are egotistical men, who put too much value on their position of authority. Creon is willing ... greeted with a spiteful and unappreciative man who does not see the true purpose of Nora's deed. Similarly, Creon, instead of seeing that his niece Antigone placed family and the Gods before the law of the land, solely he sees that he has been disobeyed. Both men worr...

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... and acting like a "lady." She starts off the play by being rebellious, especially when she chooses, against Creon's orders, to bury her brother. Antigone decides against everyone's orders and advice and attempts to bury her brother. She does this because she believes that it is what is right, so she sticks ... , and intelligent, women are precisely the opposite: they are women because they lack these positive qualities, and are thus weak in body, mind and spirit. Antigone has gone and done something that clearly required strength of character, audacity, and fearlessness. She has taken th...

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... no punishment Creon could offer would be worse than what the Gods would do if she does not bury her brother. It is clear that Antigone's morals are more important than her male counterpart. Therefore, Sophocles allows his audience to see that women will always not conform to laws that ... do not make any moral sense in this way we can see his feminist beliefs. Finally, Antigone's bravery is yet another clue into Sophocles feminist views. Antigone, who is about to die never asks Creon for forgiveness, even in what seems to be the final moments of her ... 536-542). Creon explains the role...

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... mother. However the plays of that time do not reflect the evidence that we have about the women in classical Athens. The tragedies of Medea, Antigone, Electra, and even Agamemnon, show women are strong and free willed and are capable of doing things on their own. In Euripides" Medea, ... Medea is constantly talking about the conditions that women face in her time. Sophocles Antigone is a very impressive portrayal of a woman in fifth century Athens, and she is able to produce sympathy from the audience, making the audience aware ... over us." The idea of being controlled or dominated by...

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... the moral choice. Two women characters are used to show the difference in the way that women normally would act. The two characters are Ismene and Antigone. Antigone was the righteous and rational character that women look up to, and Ismene is the quiet girl that lets men talk to her like she is dirt ... locked away in a cave. She is a very brave woman, that takes all the credit of breaking Creon's laws. This sort of action ultimately proves that Antigone is a courageous woman and is willing to stand up to men, which was completely against what any other woman would have done at this ti...

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... that they can support themselves and their family. The plays that deal with the issue of woman in society and the way they are seen in society are Antigone by Sophocles and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. We are introduced to the character Nora in Ibsen's play. Nora's character undergoes a change from first ... being a doll to becoming an individual who wants to find her own independence. Another feminine character is Antigone in Sophocles's play. Here you see a woman who goes against the laws of man to do what she believes is right even though she knows she will ... die. Antigone is a...

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... same in others in present day society. I the narratives read that include female characters such as Antigone, Ismene, and Sita, each portray a somewhat different reservation for women. Antigone goes beyond the expectations of women when she takes on the responsibility to burry her brother Polyneices. Antigone takes on this responsibility because the unburied dead will be shamed and will not be able to ... Creon being the only enemy left for her to worry about she is expected in a certain way to take on the role of a more masculine figure. Antigone clearly rebels against male authority t...

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... women were given the same opportunities in the work field. It hurt their pride to know that a woman was capable of matching his skills in his field of profession. In Antigone Creon said "better to fall from power, if we must, by a man's hand; then we could not be called weaker than a woman." This whole quote has to do with pride ... doing things. It wasn't considered lady-like to go beyond the set boundaries that come with being a woman and the thought of crossing them was almost never heard of. In Antigone, Antigone stepped over those boundaries, went against the king's word, and broke...

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... Sophocles, women were treated with no respect. Women couldn't express their opinions on how the world should be. "We"ll have no woman's law here, while I live." Creon said when Antigone thought we all had a duty to the dead. Page.140. Women were to remain indoors to superintend the servants who worked indoors and to receive the incoming. They were to ... women who manage the household were called homemakers. Also in the Sophocles tragedy women were to keep quiet and to obey there kings, or husbands orders. In the story of Antigone, Antigone disobeyed Creons orders not to bury her brothe...

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... is not born a woman, one becomes one". For both feminists and gender critics, society portrays binary oppositions like masculine/feminine or straight/gay as natural categories, but as David Richter notes, "the rules have little to do with nature and everything to do with culture." The word homosexual has only a short history of one hundred years or so (it ... Jensen argues that "Kilman reminds Clarissa of the choice she made to deny her lover for women and marry respectably" (as qtd. in Wu 65). Also as Barrett notes, there is a strong similarity among Woolf critics to see Kilman as "Cla...

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... at the very least, on television. Considering music videos to basically be ads, their portrayal of women affects the viewing audience in a similar manner as television ads. Kilbourne (Knutsen, 2000), p.1) notes in her first book that advertisements influence adolescents for three main reasons. One is that their money is more likely to be spent on what they want, not necessarily what ... for an adolescent to turn to music videos to understand what is going o in the United States considering MTV creates an unrealistic view of the world we live in. Aufderheide notes "with nary a reference ...

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... contract.10 With Colley using Marsh's book as a source for her biography, arose some controversy. In Elizabeth Marsh's writings of her travels, on no account did it contain any detailed notes compiled at the time of her journey, and no information about the society she was involved with.11 It was also written thirteen years later and submitted anonymously.12 This ... ...

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... with work. Melinda says, "Every year, just when she's stressed to the snapping point, she cooks Thanksgiving dinner. We beg her not to. We plead with her, send anonymous notes. She doesn't listen." (Anderson Pg. 57) The direct quote signifies that Melinda's mother feels cooking is necessary for her to perform during Thanksgiving. She is the mother and the ... ...

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... classes, but it is clear that struggling parents who work minimum wage jobs are forced to apply for Food Stamps, TANK, and other welfare programs. According to charts in the notes, a family of four needs an annual salary of $37,66l in order to get by without using welfare. If both parents are working in full-time, minimum wage jobs, which ... ...

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... asks of her, regardless of what the task is " (Cochran). If a man commands a women to do something women are to do what they are told without confronting it. As Omadjohwoefe notes, "The prevailing division of labor between sexes has led to men and women assuming unequal position in terms of power, prestige and wealth ". This implies that unequal portions of power ... ...

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... was looking out the window at the "tops of the trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life" (Chopin 635). She could also hear the "notes of a distant song which someone was singing" as well as smell the "delicious breath of rain" in the air (635). These images associated with Louise's sensory awakening ... ...

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... monitoring was as discreet as probable, and they intermingled modestly with the children, even though from time to time a child would ask what they were doing or "write " their own "notes " while sitting next to them. They changed their monitoring methods between unstructured field monitoring, in which they monitored the classroom in a complete approach and documented everyday activities, and more structured ... ...

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... a great deal about Feste's role in the play. Feste is shown to be not just a comic relief figure, like Sir Andrew; he is perceptive when others are not, as Viola notes after the encounter. The conversation is so spirited, because Feste and Viola actually have a good deal in common; both are paid servants who are much more than they seem to ... ...

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... have three moral imperatives: first impregnating one's wife, second, provisioning dependents; third, protecting the family." (Gilmore 285) Gilmore's term may be apply to Adrienne Rich's essay "Women and Honor: Some notes on Lying" because it contains similar ideas about how women are expected to behave according to the society they live in. According to society's expectations women's role should display femininity ... ...

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