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Women have always been inferior to men. In one of Sopholes’ most popular plays, Antigone, the female heroine, Antigone, suffers this unfortunate conception. In the play, she is a strong willed, determined woman who chose to stand up for her beliefs and whom challenges the most powerful man in this male dominated society. Creon, Antigone’s uncle and king of Thebes holds absolute control over the laws of the state, and consequently, the lives of the people who live on that land. However, Antigone was not intimidated by all the power her uncle possessed, and instead opted to disobey him. After deliberate orders to leave Antigone’s brother Polynices’ dead body to rot for the wild beasts to feed on, she went on to give her brother a proper burial. Antigone describes the difficulties, challenges, and consequences that women had to face up with in the ancient Greek society. To upset the hierarchy was utterly horrible, but for a women to disobey, that was unheard of. “What man alive would dare--…?” In Ancient Greece, freedom and rules were structured and very strict. Antigone, being her own free spirit, could not stick to these limits. Her rebellio