One example is Jocasta, the mother of Oedipus, with her title being the first symbol of power since she is known as the queen of Thebes. In Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine, Oedipus is the main character of the play showing power, but the women in the play also depict power in additional ways. Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” Women in these plays do what they can to show power, in their each individual ways. Characters in both plays display power in innumerable means, and it shows the leadership of women. From being a woman of authority, to rebelling against men with a greater authority than them, to doing what you want no matter if it was right or wrong for the people, these characters truly show what it is to be a woman of power in one way or another. In Ubu Roi, the main character that showed power through rule was Mere Ubu. Likewise, in “Antigone,” characters, such as Antigone and her sister, Ismene, also show power and supremacy. In The Infernal Machine there are female characters, such as Jocasta and the Sphinx, who show power and authority. In the three plays that we have discussed in class, Antigone by Jean Anouilh, The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau, and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, there is a prodigious depiction of female characters and power that come in numerous ways.
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