Masculinity and its ability to liberate women in Sophocles' 'Antigone' and Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon'

Abstract

What happens when masculinity is utilised by women in order to overcome patriarchal oppression? In this essay the discussion builds around how the famous female tragic protagonists, Antigone and Clytemnestra, wield traits associated with masculinity to gain agency and power as they strive to liberate themselves from their male oppressors.