... traditional tragic hero. In Aristotle's book, Poetics, the philosopher defines a tragic hero as someone of high status, flawed, afflicted with hamartia (tragic flaw) and hubris (arrogance), is punished severely, and in the end gains wisdom. The character of Creon is more emotionally developed, and the breadth of his humanity ... order in which the plays were written, might it not also be perceived that Sophocles interpreted Creon as more than a villain? According to Aristotle, the tragedy that affects the classical tragic hero is the result of his human flaws as opposed to the interfere...

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... this murderer. When, in all actuality, he is digging his own grave. Later on Oedipus realizes that he was actually the murderer of Laius and that Laius was his own father. So, after Laius died Oedipus married the queen (Laius" wife) which happened to be his own mother. ... . But knowing thyslef is also the main element of wisdom that is signified in the play. Coincidentally, Medea is the main character in "Medea", and she was married to Jason. Jason decided later on to divorce Medea after giving her two children. He decided to marry the king Creon's daughter ... would think that Medea is...

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... quest to make Jason suffer. Medea being a most cunning woman tricks Jason into believing that she cares for him still and sympathizes with him and his new wife. She offers his new wife gifts as a form of treaty between the two women and to try to convince the king into allowing the children to stay in Corinth. However, as the story tells the gifts ... my attempt to research the famous playwright Euripides I have found that many of his fellow playwrights had mixed feelings about his stories. Aristotle himself both praised Euripides calling him "the most tragic poet" and also criticized h...

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... action, having the proper magnitude ; it is presented in dramatic, not narrative form, and achieves, through the representation of pitiable and fearful incidents, the catharsis of such incidents" (Golden 11). Using the criteria established by Aristotle in Poetics, "Antigone" by Sophocles displays the qualities of a tragedy. The principle character engages ... anyone who attempts to give proper burial to Polyneices will suffer the consequences of death. Here lays her noble quality. She "takes into consideration death and the reality that may be beyond death" (hawthorn 59). Then she comm...

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... mother of her two young sons and the scorned wife who will stop at nothing to seek vengeance. Aristotle maintained that all Greek tragedies must arouse feelings of "pity" and "fear" for their characters. Palmer mentions in his footnotes that Medea induces pity and fear at the beginning of the ... Palmer differentiates between the "pro- and anti-Medea factions", citing those on Medea's side as the nurse, the Corinthian women, the slaves, and Aegeus. Those opposed to her are the King Creon, his daughter, and Jason. He notes how those with Medea speak of her and Jason's union as nothing sho...

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