... 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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