Category: Antigone

But the question is not how accurately tragedies reflect the behavior of real women but how truly they express society’s anxieties about relationships between men and women. In Medea, the eponymous heroine slaughters her children to take revenge on her husband (the hero Jason) when he abandons her to marry another woman. In Aeschylus’ Agamemnon,…

The idea of conflict between the state and individuals and the theme of civil disobedience remains prevalent throughout society today. Despite ‘Antigone’ and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ being written nearly two thousand years apart, both texts share the same societal issues of conflict between the state and the individual but in different contexts. Both Sophocles and Bradbury…