Sexism In Antigone And Whale Rider

Sexism within Patriarchal society plays a major role in driving the plot of Antigone and Whale Rider. From the opening scene of Whale Rider, we see Koro disregard the death of his daughter in law. He does not even embrace his baby granddaughter but only cares to say prayers to his dead grandson who, one day may have lead the Maori people. Even more to his dismay, his son, Porourangi, named the baby girl Paikea after the great Whale Rider. Likewise Koro disregarding the baby girl and her dead mother, Creon tells his son, Haimon, once He had imprisoned Antigone, whom Haimon was to be wed to, that there are many other girls he could be with. He acted here as if women were merely an object for men to have. Koro and Creon used their patriarchal