Response 3- Lecture on Antigone

The third lecture that I really enjoyed was our lecture on Antigone. We talked about gender inequality in history and how the story clearly shows that women were looked down upon in the kingdom. I enjoyed how we found direct quotes in the play that Creon would say about Antigone. A quote that we found includes "We cannot give victory to a women"(p.1147) . We discussed that gender inequality was a huge theme in this play. We have seen it with Creon all throughout the play. We also talked about absolute leaders and how Creon was an absolute leader because he didn't ask his kingdom when he didn't bury Antigone's brother. We discussed other absolute leaders and one leader that we connected Creon with was Hitler.