... individual, doctrine or personality can be dangerous. However, the overt criticism of society in 'Antigone' and the oblique criticism in 'King Oedipus' are only one theme in both these plays. There are more central themes that are particular to each play and in some cases the social criticism enhances and reinforces these themes. In 'Antigone', the audience is introduced to the 'eternally innocent, eternally complacent' society. It is apparent that the society, in being 'eternally innocent', does not formulate a moral judgment or opinion to the laws and principles that they live under and therefore merely comply and get carried in the wave of popular consensus. The theme of blind subservience of society is evident when the citizens justice 'for the time being is the justice of Creon' and later Creon's justice is further undermined when he himself gets arrested. Anouilh directly attacks society for obeying all authority despite the ...

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