“RESPECT Find Out What It Means to Me” (Respect, Aretha Franklin), shows how women want respect even if they are considered inferior in society. In both plays, Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, women are placed in unusual situations. Antigone is a strong-willed young woman who must choose between the laws of man and those of God when it comes to burying her deceased brother, Polyneices. She, obviously, chooses to bury her brother by going against Creon, and is therefore sentenced to death. Nora, from A Doll's House, is an independent young woman who had to take out a loan to save her husband's life. She had to forge her father's signature on the loan to save him the trouble as he was also ill. Now she is struggling to keep the loan a secret as Krogstad threatens to reveal what she did to Torvald, her husband. Sophocles and Ibsen offer glimpses into the limitations placed on women when it comes to their individual rights, their abilities, and their relationships with men. Women's individual rights are generally more limited than those of men due to the fact that they are considered inferior in society. Creon is shown to firmly believe that women are inferior and should submit to men when he discovers that he has buried his brother. “Stop wasting time. Welcome them. From now on they will behave like women. Tie them up, don't lose them again” (34). Creon believes that women do not have the right to roam freely as men do. She believes that all women should be limited in their rights and forced to do what they are told. In A Doll's House it is made clear that women do not reserve the rights that men have when it comes to asking for a loan. “Well, a wife cannot borrow without her… middle of paper… to serve men, even before God. As fully explained, women are deemed weak and insignificant compared to men. Many people, including women, they consider women incapable of taking care of themselves, so they need a man to take care of them so that they can survive in the world. Nora and Antigone are just two examples of the many women who do so have been wronged in this way, but they are also examples that show how much they can be strong women, disproving the thought that all women are weak. Works Cited Ibsen, A Doll's House World Literature: An Anthology of Great ShortStories,. Poetry and Drama Columbus, Ohio: McGraw Hill Glencoe, 2004.140-202 World: An Anthology of Great Stories, Poetry, and Drama Columbus, Ohio: McGraw Hill Glencoe 57. Print.