Patriarchy In Sophocles Antigone's Creon

Creon that symbolizes man’s absolute power, which masters all except the death are put to test by the will of a courageous woman, a rebellion, a disciple of egalitarianism. It is important to identify the position of women in Sophocles time, a view that is evident and outspoken fearlessly by the man in power or in the position of patriarchy, a structure of society in which women are not noted, and have no say. “Creon viewed women as having a less important role in Greek society which included their family life as well as their lives in the city. Creon’s viewpoint that a woman’s role in society is limited justifies itself when Creon utters the words”. (Dritonh)

“CREON
Yes—for you and me the matter’s closed.
[Creon turns to address his attendants] No more delay. You slaves,
Even bold men run when they see Hades coming close to them to snatch their lives.” (Sophocles – Johnston)

Determination of a lower ranking subject, a woman, to stand to such patriarchy was a gigantic, bold, and unheard move for the time. A challenge that aims at the power of a phenomenon, which alters the will of gods, seize and tame wild animals, spreads his way of living, who has the ability to speak, lives in cities under governing laws, and cures nearly all illnesses. This wrestle is a direct act of defiance to the authority of the “man”, the absolute power, and resistance of the lesser not to accept its inferiority.

Antigone campaigns against Creon, who shares many traits with Dionysus (Bachcchus), the god of wine, born to a mortal woman whose father was Zeus and is acknowledged for his swift and harsh punishments (Hunt) raises the issue that supremacy is challengeable, and can crack even by the weakest of the forces. Antigone, bury her brother against the odds and in open defiance of the existing brutal supremacy, bravely accepting the consequences, and surrendering to the punishment just to prove her orthodoxy to what she thought to be