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…Would the Real Hero or Heroine Please Stand Up Throughout the past both Antigone and Creon ,both characters in Sophocles' Antigone, have been considered heroes/heroines by different literary scholars. In preparation for this paper I looked up "hero…

…Oedipus the Tragedy Imagine the pain of discovering that you had unknowingly murdered your father and then married your widowed mother! This was the discovery made by the main character in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, when he…

…People of authority are frequently confronted with problems in which a choice between family and government must be made. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, Creon is in such a position. He, as king mandated a law that was disregarded by his own niece…

…In Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannous, the proganist is portrayed as a character that abuses his power because of his pride. Consequently, he becomes prejudiced towards others’ suggesting that ‘he’ is the seeked murderer. He is also narcissistic, and self…

…influences included work by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. But the two biggest influences were William Faulkner and Sophocles. Faulkner showed Gabriel how to turn his childhood into something it wasn’t. He eventually wrote a book called…

…In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Creon spends more time onstage in these three plays than any other character except the Chorus. Creon is both Jocasta's brother and a loyal Theban citizen. Creon proves to be an effective foil to the protagonist. Creon…

…and chooses to be exiled from Thebes. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare’s Othello are both considered great examples of tragedy throughout literary history. The parallelism between the two dramas is uncanny, however heterogeneous aspects still exist…

…was inevitable, a product of fate. Although he was lucky enough to find the cause of his eventual demise, he could not prevent it. Many would read this short narrative, inspired by Sophocles’ “Oedipus,” as a deterministic fable. However, it distinctly follows…

…The events in “Oedipus the King,” written by Sophocles show an essential relationship of man’s free will versus man’s fate. The Greeks believed, man was free to choose between the both, but was ultimately held responsible for his own actions. Both…

…Three dead bodies, angry Gods, and a bad omen foreseen by a prophet come true. Such are the effects of a foolish king’s actions. In Sophocles’s Antigone, Creon fails as a statesman because of three primary faults: he makes governing decisions without…