"If yield we must, then let it be to men, And never have it said we were worsted by a woman"(Sophocles 221).
Creon's true colors shine through with this statement. He is fully presenting just how he feels about women. Maybe it is not Antigone's cause that he minds, so much as the simple fact that she is a woman. This brings a new dimension to their dilemma. It becomes more than a matter of abiding by laws and listening, it becomes a matter of disliking her and her ideas because she is a girl. Maybe Creon would be more receptive of her thoughts and causes if she were not a woman. This is a terrible sentiment for Creon to be passing on to his son Haemon, yet he is directing the awful value right to him.
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