The Scene and the Unseen

In this paper, I argue that the original Antigone is of Sophocles promoted strong powerful woman, not in Antigone but her sister, Ismene. It can be argued that power comes from radical change but equally, the stronger position can be the person who stands like a rock against the Tempest and refuses to act childish and irrational. In this, the mild and the logical may seem less exciting but equally remain the underlying foundations of much of society. In comparing the works of Sophocles and Anouilh, it is possible to encapsulate many of the false ideas that have overrun politics in nihilist and existentialist opinions of society.