Question

Read the excerpt from "The Royal House of Thebes."

Answer 1

The correct answer is C: Antigone's action shows that she can break the rules for her principles, revealing that women are as capable as men. Facing Creon's tyrannical decision to leave their brother's corpse unburied, Isemene and Antigone have completely different reactions. Ismene feels that, as a woman, she cannot do anything; men rule, and her duty is to obey. Antigone, on the other hand, puts her duty to her brother above obedience to the law and rebels against Creon. She thus asserts her independence as a human being and goes beyond what her society would say is "appropiate" for a woman.