The widely held view is that Creon and Antigone represent the “Will of man” and “Will of God” as opposing forces. I think that there is certainly more, subtle layering to these characters than...
Directing Scene I of Sophocles’ Antigone
The direction of the first scene of Antigone will set the mood for the entire play. Antigone has called her sister Ismene to meet her outside the palace gates in Thebes. She tells her sister the k...
In his play Antigone, Sophocles’ main point is that pride is despised by the gods and punished without mercy. The gods are extremely vengeful and unforgiving throughout the play. The play presents v...
Sophocles shows a dramatic play
Recalling what had happened to Oedipus about finding out the he killed his own father and that he married his own mother and had children with her, Oedipus finally realized that the prophecy is true. ...
Oedipus meets all the criteria of a tragic hero. He is of noble birth with a character that is consistent throughout as a truth-seeker, always in quest of knowledge, and a riddle-solver wanting to b...