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…Antigone as a Tragic Hero In Sophocle's Antigone, the characters show a variety of traits. However, Antigone's life of aspiration, family of noble rank, and display of good mentality portray her as the tragic hero of the story. A tragic hero must…

…to proliferate in China, sometimes with unexpected results. In a recent Chinese translator of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex , all the Greek gods were referred to as Apollo, since the audience had all heard the term as part of the US space program. The question is why has…

…. However, Sophocles raises a moral dilemma in which a man, who religiously seeks the truth, falls victim to perhaps the greatest tragedy of all time. More specifically, Oedipus searches for the truth concerning his birth. Although Oedipus seeks the truth along…

…1 PERMEATING EFFECTS OF RELIGION. When comparing the two works "Oedipus the king" by Sophocles and Henrik Ibsens "Ghosts", it is at first hard to believe that they have anything in common. But when performing a deeper study of the plays, one…

…who experiences the downfall brings it upon himself because of some great flaw in his character. Maybe all this applies to tragedies written during the time that Sophocles wrote Oedipus, but when Shakespeare wrote Othello and Hamlet he must have chosen…

…an element adds to the complexity of the play, it does not necessarily mean that it would detract the audience's understanding of the play. In this instance the opposite in true of the chorus. The role of chorus as shown in Sophocles' Oedipus King the actually…

…what the medium of his writing may be. A truthful idea for me is authenticated by my own, personal beliefs, but not one idea can be truthful to all. Sophocles, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, and W.H. Auden, share what they believe to be truthful ideas…

…tries to deter fate and purge the situation at hand, the character constantly fails. Teiresias, the oracle, knows the end of all fate. He knows that fate controls every minute of an individual’s life. Sophocles probably had a strong belief in pre…

…Conflicting Values in Antigone In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Creon and Antigone have distinct conflicting values. Creon’s regard for the laws of the city cause him to abandon all other beliefs. He feels that all should obey the laws made by him…

…, but they do it with the same ambitions and motives. In the plays Sophocles wrote, each character has characteristics that arehuman, they are not. However, Sophocles made the characters somewhat exaggerated when compared to the way we act. In the plays "Oedipus…