Gender And Tradition In Sophocles 'Antigone'

Sophocles’s “Antigone” is a play that can easily be modernized. With a plot line addressing gender roles, social order, and human morals, all three of these philosophical elements have always been in practice throughout time. Consider a modern day: activists and their movements. Society is the makeup of firm, overall ideology; however within its walls, no one is tied to believe every aspect of its principles. For decades, and even possibly generations, individuals learn to adapt a certain lifestyle in hopes of surviving. The world has opened up to value speech and human development, but comes from a place where it knowledges history. Commanded, instant death like Creon did is a dated practice found minimal, if not at all, around the world