Your pleasure with her would soon grow old, Haemon, And then you’d have a hellcat in bed and elsewhere” (Sc.III.lines 20-25). Sophocles tries to show readers that men use women as a concubine. At that time, it was not a big deal to use women as his toy. Men and women should have equal rights; both genders should be treated equally. Readers witness and learn about the unequal treatment of men and women while reading the play Antigone. During the time when Antigone was written, women did not have many powerful roles in society.This is unfair because women can also do many equally well as