Antigone And Oedipus Comparison

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 outcome. Also, the deadly flaw of hubris can be recognized, though each character expressed it for different reasons. Antigone and Oedipus The King equally display the dramatic genre of a tragedy by combining, among all things, pride, death and punishment.

The willingness to ignore the truth,
Oedipus, after taunting Teiresias about being sightless, blinds himself. All along, Oedipus was the one without the ability to see things as they really were. Creon recognizes his flaws and in doing so, he reaches a greater level of understanding. Creon suffers because he defied the God's, by issuing his edict. Antigone never reaches a level of understanding between her pride and love, Simply because her pride was not the cause of any immoral events. Although, Antigone does reveal the character flaws which Creon possessed. She brought out his insecurities and weaknesses, by testing his authority when she went against his
Every event was connected to a characters action. I.e.: When Oedipus's parents gave in away, they increased the chances Oedipus would carry out his predestined life. Which was to murder his father and marry his mother. Sophocles' use of dramatic irony, a suspenseful expectation, he implies that disaster will overcome the city of Thebes. This irony is persistent throughout Oedipus, because from the beginning the reader knows what Oedipus does not, that he is son of Laius and Jocasta. Etc... Hubris, the deadly flaw that lead Oedipus, Antigone and Creon to their ruin, steered them to act in outrageously. One instance is when Oedipus, when looking for the murderer of his father. He disagreed with the prophecy. Antigone, when she attempted to bury her brother, and Creon whom 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