In two different plays, Medea and Antigone by Sophocles, portray two different women, Medea and Antigone, as stubborn and independent individuals. In the stories both women are fighting back for what they want or what they feel is right. Both stories share the lives of strong, sometimes manipulative characters but their actions are different depending on their moral views and setting.
             Medea is usually very demanding about getting what she wants when she wants it. Antigone will do anything she needs to do in order to accomplish her goal, no matter if it requires breaking the law or hurting people she loves. For example, Antigone broke the law that Creon had enforced to uphold her religious beliefs. She is not supposed to bury her brother yet she goes and buries him twice because she believes that both Polyneices and Eteocles deserve proper burial. When Creon finds out that she buried him he is furious and gives her a harsh punishment. Medea wanted revenge on her husband so bad that she did so much as to kill her own sons and other family members to achieve that goal. Neither woman thought out the process of their revenge nor of their striving to achieve the goal they set out for themselves. Medea was swift, violent strikes, impulsive. Antigone was calm and collected as she developed her plot against Creon's law, so that everything would work out smoothly and to her advantage.
             Both the women of these stories break the law of man and go against the laws of gods. With their mind set on a goal it was impossible to persuade them either way. Yet both women were very persuasive through manipulation which their stubbornness was the cause of. Antigone makes an attempt at manipulating Ismene to help her with their brothers burial. Medea manipulated anyone and everyone. In the beginning she was killing people left and right with out even contemplating the consequences of her actions but to be stuck in
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