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…with the leader of the chorus. The tragedy was further developed when new myths became part of the performance, changing the nature of the chorus to a group appropriate to the individual story. Aeschylus added a second actor and a third actor was added by Sophocles…

…how Oedipus was talking to him. So he became angry and said, “‘You are a pitiful figure. The reproaches you fling at me, all these people will fling them at you’” (Sophocles 25). Tireasas was the authority and he let Oedipus know it. Oedipus tried…

…, and on actions, again all success or failure depends....” This excerpt from Aristotle’s Poetics illustrates an aspect of tragedy upon which many works, including Shakespeare’s Othello and Sophocles Oedipus are based. The plays of Oedipus the King and Othello both…

…than all animals. There is no pattern however of what these imageries are to mean. It is not always that you put a bird in the category of a vulture but Sophocles does. He talks about it eating a dead man body as he rots in the desert. He says this two…

…Have you ever wondered why Sophocles named his famous play after Antigone, and not Creon? Is it because she is the real tragic hero? Many critics including myself feel that Antigone is the true tragic hero, as she possesses many qualities that qualify…

…Rex was Sophocles’ attempt to show the Greeks that they could not avoid the dealings of the gods, or they may be forced to conspire against the very people they should love most. Jocasta was, in this way, a victim. Though it was by her own doing…

…of Sophocles, women were considered second class citizens. They would not even be permitted to act in the drama Antigone. It seems unlikely that Sophocles would choose a woman as the tragic hero of the play. There are certain qualities that a character must…

…Philoctetes, the bowman, is a most haunting and ambiguous character of Sophocles. He represents the pain which the world subjects all creative people to. Keeping his simplicity and innocence in a world of confusion and lies ends up being his greatest…

…Strength Equals Downfall Aristotle defined a tragic story as the adventure of a good man who reaches his ultimate downfall because he pushed his greatest quality too far. Sophocles advocates the definition in the tragic play Oedipus Rex. He…

…Audrey Fish The Role of Fate in "Oedipus the King" Is Oedipus a victim of the gods, their prophecies, and destiny, or his own fatal flaws? I am under the impression that Sophocles wrote the play to underscore the uselessness of trying to avoid one's…