Examples Of Marxism In Antigone

The Marxist theory is shown throughout our writing piece, Antigone. From the characters to the existing plot complexity within the piece, you can identify several places in which it appears. After reading the story, you can easily pick out the dominant characters. The characters that would take on the label of “powerful people” would be Creon and most of the characters that we meet within the story. Although Ismene, Antigone, Haemon, etc are below Creon, they all belong to the “upper class” society. Powerful people are powerful because of their families, wealth, skills, and even personality. The same attributes contribute to the reasoning as to why the powerless are in fact powerless. When taking a close look at the gap between these two classes. There is a well defined alienation from each-other. Each misunderstand one another. It is most common that the powerless will feel an alienation from the powerful and an almost “self-pity” because of the two very different lifestyles the classes live. However, you can also see the powerful feeling alienated from the powerless because they feel as if they are too good or of a higher
The feminist theory shows itself in Antigone, through Antigone herself. The Psychoanalytic theory, through every character. Many of the theories appear and even contribute the Marxism. Once you become familiar with the text, you begin to accept the oppression of the powerless. However in this case, the oppression of Antigone by Creon. You come to accept that Creon will override Antigone despite her fight against him because of his power. Relating this concept to modern day society, you can easily configure that some oppression is perceptible and can be sensed. The government will always be more powerful than the society. It will control us and oppress us with its rules and regulations that are set in play to obtain peace among the