... continues as the blind man, who was exiled from Thebes, is lead by his loyal daughter Antigone to Athens and to his death in the next of Sophocles" three Theban plays, Oedipus at Colonus. This play delivers many messages in the same way, through the characters, through the plot and through the theme. As the lessons in the previous play were mainly ... protect his young girls when he was exiled and after his death, which Creon broke when punishing Antigone harshly for her deeds. The personalities of the main characters in this play are, interestingly enough all very much the same. Almost...

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... a practical necessity. It made the transitions between scenes, giving actors the chance to enter and leave the playing area, and even announced what characters those actors portrayed. But the function of the chorus goes beyond this. The choral odes, accompanied by dancing and music, were part of the ... tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situation is brought about by the man's miscalculation of reality or the characters find themselves between two conflicting principles and are confronted with a choice, the results of which are always fatal. Th...

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