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Not only is Antigone a feminist’s play, but a revolutionary one as well, making a revolt against authority seem glamorous and romantic. Clearly, we can not overlook Antigone and just consider it a classic play from simpler times. The underlying message from the text is apparent, it is a threat to all societies in which a governmental system presides over the people. Antigone and her stubborn outlook in relation to the divine authority of the Gods was a direct threat the social order that her uncle Creon, the king of Thebes, was trying to control with a reign of terror. Creon generously agreed to raise his nieces and nephews (Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices) after their father and his brother-in-law Oedipus gauged his eyeballs out of their sockets and exiled himself from the kingdom he once ruled with patience and virtue. The city-state of Thebes never made a complete recovery from the tragic loss of their king. A civil war rose through the streets of the city; brothers fought against brothers. This is precisely where the tragic ordeal began. Eteocles and Polyneices battled against each other until their inevitable and untimely deaths.
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