More often, in the depiction of real life situations and events in
             literature, conflict happens in cases where the protagonist acts or behaves
             that defies the norms dictated and followed by the society. Non-conformity
             and defiance to social norms is a theme that has been discussed and
             analyzed in numerous works of literature. However, defiance and non-
             conformity in these cases result to resolutions that restore one again the
             status quo in the society. What if literary works uses this theme without
             returning things back to the proper order of things, or restoration of the
             These questions on social conflict between the society and individual
             are discussed in the literary works of Sophocles, Henrik Ibsen, and
             Tennessee Williams. These renowned playwrights utilize the theme of
             defiance and non-conformity of its protagonists in their plays, with a
             twist: instead of putting the situation in its proper, normal' order as
             what the society expects them to be, these playwrights opted to defy the
             norm of normalcy' in their plays. Instead, Sophocles, Ibsen, and Williams
             ended their plays justifying their protagonists' actions and resolution at
             the end of the play. The main characters of the play leave an indelible
             mark in the minds of the audience because of the radical means and ways
             that they chose to do in order to assert themselves and to not become
             (again) the victims that they were before. The following texts discuss the
             following important points mentioned with support material/passages from
             The play "Antigone" by Sophocles is a continuation of the lives of
             Oedipus' children after his tragic end in "Oedipus the King." The play
             mainly centers on Antigone and her siblings' (Polyneices, Eteocles, and
             Ismene) struggle against the sufferings she received from Creon, the new
             ruler of Thebes after Oedipus. Antigone's story has parallelisms with her
             father's plight: th...