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Comparison between Sophocles' tragedys Antigone and Oedipus the King.
Title: Comparison between Sophocles' tragedys Antigone and Oedipus the King.
Category: Social Sciences / Language & Speech
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Comparison between Sophocles' tragedys Antigone and Oedipus the King.
Antigone and Oedipus The King, written by Sophocles, are deeply tragic plays with a dramatic ending. In both plays, fate arises the question: could have Creon, Oedipus, Antigone, and the rest of the family, prevented the misfortunes, which fell upon them? Or were their lives cursed upon by determination? With every event that took place, the possibility of another occurrence was either higher or lower. One can see that every action brings upon an ironic …showed first 75 words of 832 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 832 total…by his very own edict, is brought to his ruin. Irony is included in almost every aspect of the plays. The long speeches that Oedipus makes, Antigones sentence to death in a cave, and Creon's entire existence. Both Oedipus The King and Antigone, I believe are the most tragic plays of all time. Sophocles creates certain effects that imply beforehand, the level of tragedy and drama, by connecting, among all things, arrogance, death and punishment.
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