Complex plots have both "reversal of situation" (peripeteia) and "recognition" (anagnorisis) connected with the catastrophe. ... Hegel thinks that Sophocles' Antigone is a perfect example of a tragedy. ... For example, Antigone was caught between doing the right thing from the religious point of view (burial of her dead brother) and doing the right thing from the point of view of law (obeying the king's orders). ...

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