Raveena Patel
December 12, 2009
Sawyer, 2.
Antigone Essay!
Have you ever read the myth Antigone? Well it is such a good myth! Reading it will help
you understand what goes on in people minds back in the day. Also it will teach you about role
models and a feminist and what they are, and how the main character is all these things.
What is a role model? A role model is “a person whose behavior, example, or success is
or can be emulated by others”. Also, I role model is someone you look up too and want to be
like when you are older or just in general. Also, I role model’s actions can be imitated by others
such as like what they did. A role model is something everyone wants to be or even have.
Antigone is a role model! This is because she went against Creons wishes and stood up
for her family which a women cannot do back in the day. She buried or put dust on her brother
when she was not aloud too, and people would really look up to her because she is brave to do
something like that and she knows she could have been killed but it was okay because she was
standing up for what she believed in and what she thought was right. Also, everyone wants to
be able to stand up for what they believe in, and not just do everything a King says to do or not
to do.
What is a feminist? A feminist is “the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other
rights of women equal to those of men”. Also, could be said as, a women that thinks that men
are just as equal is women. They think this because men always think they have more power
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than women, but in reality they really don’t. For an example a real feminist would be like Susan
B Anthony, who achieved the women’s civil rights leader.
Is Antigone a feminist and how? Yes she is and she is a feminist because she went
against Creon to bury her brother. Also she’s not scared to die because of what she did and she
was ready to stand up to the King for her consequences. Also, she stood up to Creon and told
him that she’s not scared of him and that she doesn’t care about civil law she only cares about
divine law. Not just anyone would do that, she truly wanted to be equal to men; or she would
have never put dust over her brother. Antigone wants to be able to do exactly what men are
able to do, in the beginning what Creon said a man had done this and Antigone showed him
wrong and said a woman can do anything a man can do. Antigone showed him what she could
do.
Antigone is not swept up in her emotions because; she really cared about her brother
and Haemon, the man that was in love with her. Haemon really loved her, and she felt the same
about him. For example when Haemon said “Not here, no; she will not die here, King and you
will never see my face again go on raving as long as you’ve a friend to endure you” He is saying
if you kill her, father you will never see my face again. So Haemon really cared about her, and
didn’t want her to die, and told Creon that. Antigone wasn’t really swept up in her emotions
because she really wanted to save her brother and stand up for what was right, well what she
thought was right.
Antigone was a great character in this myth. She was very important. She showed a lot
of readers what was right and wrong, and that being a role model is good and supporting what
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you believe in is always good such as being a feminist. Reading this myth can help a lot of
women and men understand things a lot better.