The plays Antigone and Lysistrata contain similar aspects that end up also being their differences. In these plays the protagonists are women, Lysistrata and Antigone, who are both resilient and courageous women who challenges the gender roles of their time. In the time period of when these two plays were written, women basically had no basic rights they were to follow proper concepts expected of a woman of that age. However, in these plays when these roles were challenged, one ended tragically while…
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