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Myles Derr Topic 3 Some characteristics Oedipus shows while he is a king is his impatience, his ability to act rashly, and how quick he likes to take action. One example of this is on page 18 of The Oedipus Cycle when he says, “What a wicked old man you are! You’d try a stone’s patience! Out with it!” Oedipus says this after Teiresias refuses to tell him what he knows about the murderer of the previous king of Thebes. Instead of trying to persuade him further or just accept that Teiresias won’t

The Tragic Hero: Creon Antigone, by Sophocles, is the final chapter in the Oedipus Trilogy featuring Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone was written in 440 BC, before the other plays in the trilogy. Most people still prefer to read the plays in chronological order of the story. Sophocles lived during the fifth century B.C. in Athens during the golden age of drama. Antigone shows the tragic conflict between man and divine law with the story of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone and King Creon

with only a few titles and fragments remaining. The seven tragedies include Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, and Trackers. Sophocles was considered to be a master of character development and made several major and minor dramatic innovations to his plays. Sophocles was born in Colonus, Greece in c. 496 B.C and his farther, Sophilus, was very wealthy arms manufacturer. Sophocles was well educated and won many awards for wrestling and music

Hannah Arendt’s essay on Violence as my primary source as a means to the ends and means that occur throughout the events become dramatized in Sophocles Antigone. 2. Body 2.1 Antigone’s Summary The play Antigone begins where Oedipus at Colonus has passed on in Colonus there after Antigone and Ismene decide to travel back to Thebes, they do this because Eteocles and Polyneices have overcome a prophecy which announces

Joseph Drake asserted, “And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave” (Quote Garden). Is it respectable and honorable to allow a man who fought for the sovereignty of his father’s country to disintegrate on open land and feed the vultures? Leaving a man to rot, especially when he holds power above most, is both immoral and spiteful. Two royal brothers battle and die for the throne of Thebes and leave behind

Epictetus says, “Remember that you are an actor in a play, which is as the playwright wants it to be: short if he wants to short, long if he wants it long. If he wants you to play a beggar, play even this part skillfully, or a cripple, or a public official, or a private citizen. What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else” (#17). Epictetus comes from a stoic school of philosophy, this maxim means that people are who they are meant to be. Everything that

and Jocasta having the same thought process and traits shows a son and mother relationships. Jocasta and Oedipus marrying one another is Sophocles way of creating the irony for viewers of the play. In addition to parent relations, in, “Oedipus at Colonus,” the family relationship of siblings shows the aspects of pride, power, and loyalty. Polynices and Eteocles, Oedipus sons/brothers are at conflict with one another, both wanting the loyal power of the King position. Eteclos has claimed the

they have evolved into several modern theatrical productions and movies. Although not written as part of a trilogy, Sophocles’ three interconnected plays focus on the same dysfunctional family: Antigone, Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) and Oedipus at Colonus. His second play Oedipus the King continues to awe the audiences today as much as it entertained Sophocles’ audience. There existed then and now a fascination with this defected group of individuals that others still seek to transform and capture

The Hero Antigone Antigone is the name of the tragedy by Sophocles and it is also the name of the protagonist of the tragedy. Antigone is the main character of the tragedy and also the hero of it. Heroes come in many shapes or forms. In many mythology, most heroes that are known and talked about are males such as Herakles or Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, and Jason. Antigone is one of the few female heroes in Greek and Roman mythology. In Sophocles' Antigone, the protagonist or hero is a woman that

Andrew Skweres Miss Brentzel Honors English 10 24 August 2015 Summer Assignment; Oedipus Plays of Sophocles Antigone is tired of Creon’s unjust ruling of Thebes. She wants justice not only for all of Thebes but particularly for her brother Polyneices. Creon views Polyneices as a traitor and as a result, will not give him the proper burial. Instead, Polyneices’ body is going to be left out in the battlefield, “the most ignominious of ends for any Greek,” (Roche 189). Upon hearing this, Antigone