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Pouya GhasemlouProfessor LavelleWriting about Literature 1022 February 2014Themes and meaningsExtreme pride is the core theme in both(prenominal) of the plays. For example, in Antig iodine, Creon decides not obey the gods wish and decline to give a proper funeral to Antigones brother. Since Creon is too fulfilled to accept his fault and also he wants to keep the appearance before the people he decides to execute Antigone. He is very self-satisfied when he established a new law that is the resistance of holy values because no one should establish any law that is equivalent to the Gods commandment. When Teiresias tells Creon of his plenty, Creon refuses to believe this thus Creon must suffer the difference of his family. Sexual category the Role of FemalesThe significance of Antigones action are deeply under the influence of her sexuality. In concomitant, Creon admits that one of the main reasons that motivates him to overthrow Antigone is hardly due to the fact that she is a fem ale. Even if someone considers the freedom of females with ancient standards he will realize that women in Hellenic was under a exacting restrictions and limitations. Having this in mind, Antigones disobedience was considered as a potential danger because it was aiming to change females character in the Greek society. Antigone chose to be active and this changes one of the vital laws of the Greek culture. Antigone is the Protagonist because at the very opening of the play she disagrees with her sister who is considered to be a good girl based on the Greek conception of being good because she unquestionably obeys the laws of the society. In the opposing point, Antigone is an anarchists and refuses to be like her sister. So in a sense, Ismene is Antigones foil due to the fact t... ...as, the messenger, and guard after he stabs out his eyes he asks to be banished. Oedipus is continuously restless and is always out of his reach. By the end of the play his name has occasion a curse he is ashamed of himself and his actions (shows he is a DYNAMIC CHARACTER) this curse passes on to his children as shown when his two sons and daughters meet their fate. Antigone Based on the fact that she is well aware of her past. For Creon, she is more hazardous than Oedipus, Antigone is more dangerous than Oedipus, especially to Creon. Because of what she and her family has gone through she has a feeling that there is nothing else to lose. Due to the fate her family has experienced, Antigone feels she has nothing to be afraid of. She sheds light on the differences between Gods rule and social rule. She emphasizes that his rules cannot outweigh Gods wish.