... , is brought upon him not by vice or depravity, but by some error in judgment the change in the hero's fortune must not be from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery". From this definition, he further expanded it by defining the profile of the Classical Greek tragic hero, basing it on what he considered the best tragedy ... killed his father and committed incest with his mother and finally loses everything he has had before. Aristotle's view also comprises that of the hero's fortune changing from happiness to misery and not the other way round. Oedipus lived ...

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... as her punishment. He wants her to die of starvation and depression. Creon wants her to live in the cave with misery. Climax "Creon puts Antigone in the cave after she was captured. Antigone did not want to die in misery. She said that her cave was her bridal bed. Antigone used the linen that was in her cave and hung ... ...

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... desire for truth lead him to a bitter end below the mountain he had climbed. When Oedipus discovered that he was murder of Laios and that he had brought death and misery to Thebes, he stabbed himself in the eyes with pins because he had seen how ugly the world was and he wanted to get away from it. After blinding himself ... ...

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... refuses, stating that it is her fate to say no and die. At the end of the play, Antigone hangs herself in her cell, Haimon stabs himself in his own misery, and King Kreon is left alone. By further examining the character of Antigone, one can conclude that she in fact fits the pattern of a tragic heroine as outlined by Aristotle ... ...

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... , where the audience is aware of a characters heritage yet the protagonists remain oblivious. To put it in a simplistic context, Oedipus is much like the modern day 'soapies', where tragedy and misery are woven into daily lives. Sigmund Freud, in his research in dream analysis, discovered infantile sexuality and founded the 'Oedipus complex', which constitutes the erotic attachment of the child for ... ...

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... he relies on his status, he is blind, not physically, but emotionally. He is blind in his actions; therefore he does not see that the questioning would bring him only misery. Later, after his self- inflicted blinding, Oedipus sees his actions as wrongdoing when he says "What use are my eyes to me, who could never - See anything pleasant again?" (Sophocles ... ...

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... he relies on his status, he is blind, not physically, but emotionally. He is blind in his actions; therefore he does not see that the questioning would bring him only misery. Later, after his self- inflicted blinding, Oedipus sees his actions as wrongdoing when he says "What use are my eyes to me, who could never - See anything pleasant again?" (Sophocles ... ...

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... hopes to be a wise and good ruler. Later on we learn that he is too inflexible and narrow to heed criticism or admit fault, and that this causes all the misery in his life. The same is true of Antigone. She appears to be a very compassionate individual in the Prologue; however, later on we learn that she is also stubborn and ... ...

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... final scenes we see that Jason is truly devastated at the loss of all those he loved. Medea accomplished in taking away everything from Jason. Now he must live in misery while Medea escapes to another life, moving on with no remorse or shame for the murders she had committed. The character of Oedipus went in the other direction in his ... ...

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... love of the gods, and if you love your life, give up this search! My sickness is enough" (OR 1065-1066). Thomas Gould states, "Oedipus would not have avoided his misery by having been a better man, but he could have remained prosperous and happy if he had been a less good man" (51). When Oedipus realizes that his appalling fate has come ... ...

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... solemnity I curse him weather he acted alone [The murderer] or with others to bear the mask of this crime for the rest of his life, without friends, homeless and in misery-. This is the overall outcome and maybe if this wasn't asked of it might not have happened. We now move on to what slowly becomes a very anxious part of the ... ...

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