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…In Antigone by Sophocles, Ode III discusses how love conquers all; love is unconquerable. However the entire play refutes this idea. Three main characters kill themselves due to the circumstances in Sophocles’ play, maybe because they loved one another…

…he rules. Sophocles called him Creon, but there are many more appropriate names. Women were seen as toys, tossed about and battered at his behest: expendable appendages that had no real place in his society. In a conversation with his son (Haemon) Creon…

…Blindness versus Sight Oedipus the King was written by Sophocles, and performed for the first time between 430 and 425 B.C. The play unfolds the tale of a king’s battle for justice and knowledge in seeking the killer of his father, the previous king…

…Jocasta is an integral part of the play, Oedipus The King, by Sophocles. Her actions and thoughts are important to the reader as well as the characters within the play. In this passage there are several themes and significant items that she…

…accompanied by sorrow and grief. In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex Sophocles shows how Oedipus’s thirst for the knowledge of his past leads to his own demise. Knowledge is not just given to the characters in the tragedy. Oedipus, sincerely and seriously, "must…

…judgments also, based on what I have researched of this work by Sophocles. Antigone is widely thought of as the tragic hero of the play bearing her name. She would seem to fit the part in light of the fact that she dies in doing what is right. She buries her…

…Antigone: Greek Tragedy In the novel “Antigone” Sophocles, the author, depicts the tragic hero Creon to the fullest extent. Sophocles portrays Creon as a tragic hero by the characteristics shown throughout the story. Creon is a character that is easy…

…Antigone Antigone, written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles in 442 BC, is a tragic play named after its most tragic figure. Antigone, is the story of a woman who stood for what she believed in, and died for what she felt was right. Antigone…

…they have a lack of understanding about the duty of burying the dead and are too influenced by political authority, or, human law. He holds that Sophocles left no doubt about what conclusion should be drawn in the end. He believes Antigone was right and Creon…

…Oedipus Rex- Quest for knowledge - Was it really worth it? by Sophocles One of the most memorable and meaningful Socratic quotes applies well when in context of Sophocles' Theban Trilogy. "The unexamined life is not worth living," proclaims…