Comparing and Contrasting Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Othello

During the play it was broken into five short stories making it difficult to follows at times. This play had an Episodic structure, tracking characters through five different eras’. This play was difficult to find a Genre, the most it identified with was a Tragicomedy. The use of each Antigone

While both versions of Antigone follow the same plot there are many factors making the two different. This is shown with different characterization, scenes, and the style of

Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. Tragedy is defined as an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress. The story begins with a death and ends with a death, and Sophocles does an excellent job employing many different types of ways to include fear and pity and this brings the tragedy alive. Especially with the fear of death when is abundantly rampant throughout the entire play. Although, written around 442 BC, it is just as well applied now as it was then.

Either way, Antigone and Oedipus’ personalities make them what they are, tragic heroes, as well make them renowned for their story since they were first on the stage to now. Sharing the characteristic of pride and stubbornness, yet being completely different when it come to insight and ignorance, also compassion and being self-absorbed, Antigone and Oedipus are rather alike. Thought this might not seem important, whether make believe character are similar and different, but nearly everything in pop culture, from movies to plays are derived from works of fiction from the past. Tragic heroes exist everywhere even in modern culture for example Tiger Woods, O.J. Simpson, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson, etc. All people of power once loved by many but due to mistakes they losted fame, fortune, and even love; all with a tragic downfall; and all with a tragic flaw, that got them in the situation they are in or was in. All very similar yet different to the tragic heroes of the past, Antigone and

Desdemona is portrayed as a very inquisitive women, whom loves to explore the things and people outside of her class. She fell in love with Othello because of her curious nature and being attracted to his acts of bravado. Her intentions are sincere; however her curiosity in this act is seen as folly. She asks her cousin Lodovico about his arrival and informs him of Cassio’s dismissal. This angers Othello as she is praising another man, taking a persona of being proactive about him. For Othello this concludes that she is disobedient and has dishonored him - to put her in place, he resorts to violence:

Both the stories of "Antigone" and "Medea" are tragedies as per Aristotle's disaster subjects. Antigone and Medea both have plots that are brought into the play on account of certain sad occasions. For Medea the plot is that Medea's better half is going to wed the ruler of Corinth's little girl and, out of trepidation, the lord tries to oust Medea and her youngsters. So to settle the score with all of them Medea ascertains an approach to turn the tables on all of them regardless of the stakes. For Antigone the plot of her needing to cover her fallen sibling despite the fact that he is taboo from constantly being covered with the discipline being demise. She faces on the results by conferring suicide thus does her future spouse who happens to

Antigone was a Greek tragedy with multiple acts and scenes written by Sophocles around 441 b.c. The Game, was a one-act play written by Louise Bryant in 1916. Both plays have strong protagonists and antagonists. They have minimal stage directions allowing freedom and movement. The plays were written in a Dramatic Point-of-View so the audience does not know the internal thoughts or emotions of the characters and instead uses dialogue to characterize the individuals.

Along with the contrasting conflicts the main characters, Oedipus and Antigone, are also very different in regards to their behavior and how they handle situations. Antigone is much more level headed than Oedipus. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus immediately kills a man just for being in his way and forcing him off the road a bit. Antigone on the other hand, does not take any physical action toward Creon despite not giving her brother a burial. Another difference in character is Oedipus’s defiance to the gods and the oracle while Antigone obeys the laws of the gods. Oedipus, to the people of Thebes, claims if they pray to him he himself would rid the city of the plague; making an implication that he is above the gods. Antigone however, wishes to obey the laws of the gods and demands her brother be given a proper burial. A closing example of the difference in how each character is rendered is how Antigone knowing breaks the law (defies Creon) for what she believes is right while Oedipus breaks the law without knowing; Antigone is

Furthermore, Shakespeare’s work always has a central theme that teaches the audience a valuable lesson. “Othello” and “Romeo and Juliet” have very different central themes. However, they both are very relatable. According to Daniel Rosler, “love, jealousy and a pursuit of justice litter the plots of some of Shakespeare’s most renowned plays…” (2015). In the two plays, the relationships are plagued by a variety of emotions that ultimately leads to a detrimental end.

Although Oedipus Tyrannus was written more than a decade after the Antigone, it still reflects many of the themes and motifs through some of the same characters. Oedipus, the present king of Thebes finds himself attempting to solve the riddle that is his life; Antigone, the daughter of the former king must decide between following divine or man made law. Although both title characters face separate conflicts they both reflect similar traits at differing times in their respective plays. Alongside the similarities and contrasts of the title characters, the functions of the minor characters in each play serve as supports to help accentuate certain traits in the major characters. With different plots and many differing characters the two plays tend to reflect each other, the Antigone successfully

The plays King Oedipus and Antigone are featured in The Theban Plays, written by Sophocles and translated by E. F. Walton. These plays tell the tragic events experienced during Oedipus’s and Antigone’s stories, and can be used to compare the flawed characteristics and actions of the two characters. Antigone shares the characteristics of pride and determination as well as a tendency to make risky decisions with her father, Oedipus, and while they are not inherently bad, each turn into a flaw as Antigone and Oedipus go throughout their journey.

A tragedy is a story which is centered on a character who does something terrible, and as they realize what they have done, the world around them crumbles. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is about how Macbeth and Banquo are met by three witches bearing prophetic greetings. Macbeth is told that he will become king. The rest of the play follows Macbeth into the depths of darkness as he seeks the crown not caring about the consequences. Antigone, by Sophocles, is a Greek tragedy about Antigone and how she tries to follow the will of the gods, even if it means going against the laws of the country. Both of these plays may be tragedies, but I believe that ‘Antigone’ is the more tragic of the two plays, as there is a tragic hero who has a fatal flaw and who repents for their action.

Both “Antigone” and “Othello” are awful heroes. They have taking part in doing great deeds and they have extraordinary quality or forces. An example of such forces include: “Othello” annihilations and the “Venice” adversary. “Antigone” makes sure that the “Theban” rights are “Theban” due. In these cases, the lethal character blemish wrecks the good lives of these two heroes (Bentley, E. (Ed).. 1951)

Plays have been written by authors from hundreds of years ago. In there plays they allow people to learn from the characters mistakes. These dramatic tragedies have so many versions of sadness and fear. The two tragedies Antigone and Othello show us how they were victims of the monarchy despite what there wrong doings were.

The word ‘tragedy’ can be traced back to Ancient Greece. Although it now holds a very firm meaning it once was believed to mean “goat-song” it had a connection to the Greek god Dionysus (“Tragedy”). Tragedies have evolved throughout the centuries and there is myriads of definitions for tragedies many of which refute the others, however, Aristotle’s Poetics gives its own definition as well as lots of insight. While there is no universal agreement of how a tragedy exactly should be concocted there are many reoccurring themes in tragedies which are present in Antigone such as the law of men against the law of the gods, Hamartia (the tragic flaw), View on Women, the bonds of family and the metaphor used by Aristotle which he values so highly: Catharsis. At the beginning of the play the audience is in ignorance but as the tragedy develops and uses its themes by the end it emanates knowledge. The themes in Antigone display many things for example the law of men against the law of the gods shows human ignorance and ‘great’ rulers committing foolish mistakes which they highly pay for. The tragic flaw shows that humans are more often that credited with being responsible for their own death through their ignorance; although Antigone is quite aware of the consequences her tragic flaw will be responsible for. The view on women shows the little power that women had at the time being expressed through the passive women like Antigone’s sister while also giving heroines to act as moral