Equality is the matter of people treating each other equal. Gender is a range of characteristics associated with certain specific sex. When gender and equality are put together, both sexes are treated fairly. However, it is difficult to accomplish equality in real life and is hardly seen in literature. Majority of adult literature books are dominated by male figures. Women are mostly portrayed as weak-willed, law-abiding, and obedient, while men are typically described as strong, driven by ego, and are independent. Although Greece was at one time a male-dominated society, Sophocles' work Antigone, represents women in a different manner.
             Antigone's soul is filled with courage, passion, and anger which symbolize respectable qualities in a woman. Despite the laws that were laid down by Creon, Antigone is strong enough to believe in her conscious to do what is right. As Antigone is devout to the Gods she believed that their laws should be obeyed above those of men, especially where family is concerned. The laws set forth by the Gods dictate that a body is allowed proper burial rites. Antigone's commitment to the Gods and their rules superseded those laws created by Creon. "Yes; for it was Zeus that had published me that edict, not such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth." (Sophocles, 442 B.C.E) In Ancient Greek, women had restrictions regarding their freedom having to follow a set of strict rules and laws. Being rebellious to these laws could be construed as a threat. Antigone's actions had been upsetting gender roles while putting political pressure on the hierarchy. By not following the law's set she was rearranging her cultural rules. As most Kings in that...