Revelation of Patriarchal Social Reality in Sophoclean Tragedies:Antigone and Electra
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This thesis explores the 'Revelation of Patriarchal Social Reality' in the
Sophoclean tragedies—AntigoneandElectra. Sophocleshas raised some rebellious
ladies-Antigone, Electra in these plays in the beginning but in the concluding part, he
internalizes the idea of the need for the establishment of patriarchal social system. He
has exposed patriarchal social reality in the existing society and ultimate failure of
women to establish their own norms due to patriarchal ideology prevailing in the
society. Sophocles has done his best to show patriarchy as a necessary institution
which is just and according to nature and that its abolition would be unnatural and
would lead to anarchy.