ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY In the tragedies of Sophocles, human responsibility plays an important role to the significance of the characters. Oedipus accepts responsibility as a tragic hero, as does Antigone. It seems however, that Antigone shows a greater willingness to accept her responsibility. Oedipus" basic flaw is his lack of knowledge of his own identity. He starts out as a good king, and finds out laios is killed, threatening the killer to a severe punishment. He doesn't know, however, that is was actually him that killed him until later. Oedipus' unyielding desire to uncover the truth a...

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... . I shudder to think of a world where Luke doesn't have Han Solo by his side! All kidding aside, supporting characters are what make stories great and memorable, and these three plays prove that amazingly. Oedipus Rex, what a sad poor man. But he himself wasn't really all that deep or memorable of a character. Yes the ... Tiresias. The blind leading the blind, I guess you could say. In Antigone, we again follow the bloodline of Oedipus, through his daughters and sons. Again though, you see major development in the secondary characters. Again we see our old friend Tiresias, although I fee...

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... quot;Oedipus Rex", by John Bennett and Moira Kerr, is a story about a young man named "Oedipus", son of the Corinth, who attempts to escape his fate of killing his father. In "Antigone", by E.F. Watling, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, ... true! ...All the oracles had been right: Laius had been murdered by his own son, Oedipus," (2-3, Bennett and Kerr). Oedipus was overjoyed that he evaded the fate of killing his own father, the king of Corinth. But ... and the people grew hungry; disease spread among the Thebans, and they could not be cured" (2, Bennett and Kerr). Oedipus had everyt...

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... . There are several valuable lessons, universals truths, that, through Sophocles characters, to be learned for Antigone. A major part of Sophocles tragedies is the chorus, which has many uses but was mostly a summation of the events thus far. As part of the chorus, Choragos is the concluding speaker of both tragedies, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, and in both he summates the play with universal ... truths, learned through the characters of the play. From those concluding lines, the reader's full attention is brought to the fact that the character's pride and arrogance blinded ... truth, rat...

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... moral, rebellious, and most of all, justified. Creon was threatened by a woman. She was supposed to be passive and stay within cultural domains of her gender. King Eteocles, son of Oedipus, was murdered by Polynices, his own brother. Why should he receive or deserve the same rites as the king, loyal ruler of the land? Creon was the king and justified ... of man who threatened their livelihood as a society. She is not the king, nor does she have the right to perform such actions, even if she is the daughter of Oedipus Rex; she is still a woman. A mere woman became more powerful than the ...

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