Power is what every man, woman, and eventually child crave, and kill for. Sophocles was aware of this, for all three of his plays demonstrate the lengths one would go to for even the smallest taste of the possibilities power can grant you. One can infer Sophocles viewed the society he was a part of as cruel, whether you were selfish or selfless, life, in general, was selfish because in the end those who were innocent met their demise by those who were responsible for their own. It was interesting that in both Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus men appear to be the most dominant sex while in Antigone the roles switch. Sophocles depicts Antigone as a rebel, a challenger to Creon's power, one who fights for what she believes in and dies to try to fulfill that belief. It could be inferred that Sophocles wants to show that Women are too capable of being the most dominant sex. When one thinks about it, Greek society is not all that different when compared to today's.(ADD TO THIS
Power is what every man, woman, and eventually child crave, and kill for. Sophocles was aware of this, for all three of his plays demonstrate the lengths one would go to for even the smallest taste of the possibilities power can grant you. One can infer Sophocles viewed the society he was a part of as cruel, whether you were selfish or selfless, life, in general, was selfish because in the end those who were innocent met their demise by those who were responsible for their own. It was interesting that in both Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus men appear to be the most dominant sex while in Antigone the roles switch. Sophocles depicts Antigone as a rebel, a challenger to Creon's power, one who fights for what she believes in and dies to try to fulfill that belief. It could be inferred that Sophocles wants to show that Women are too capable of being the most dominant sex. When one thinks about it, Greek society is not all that different when compared to today's.(ADD TO THIS