Oedipus accepts responsibility as a tragic hero, as does Antigone. ... Oedipus" basic flaw is his lack of knowledge of his own identity. ... Take for example a part of the last conversation between Jocasta and Oedipus. ... Oedipus replies, I cannot yield my right to know the truth". ... At the end of this tragic story, when Oedipus gouges out his eyes, it shows his willingness to accept his responsibility. ...

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However, audiences delighted in different dramatists twists, interpretations and moral focuses of these similar stories. ... In Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus is the protagonist. In the story, Oedipus is desperatley seeking peace, a home and burial outside of Thebes. ... Point of View: Sophocles wrote the story for an Athenian Greek audience. ... The final denouement of Oedipus at Colonus is Oedipus" death in solitude. ...

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Without a supporting cast of characters, no story would ever be as good as it was with them. ... Oedipus Rex, what a sad poor man. ... He has only a brief time in the story, but without him the story falls apart and becomes meaningless. ... In Antigone, we again follow the bloodline of Oedipus, through his daughters and sons. ... Again we see our old friend Tiresias, although I feel the role he has in this play isn't quite as influential to the story line as he was in Oedipus King. ...

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The Tragic Hero of Antigone Sophocles" Antigone is the story of the battle between Antigone and Creon and their different views on laws placed by man and those placed by gods. ... Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus, the king, and she truly belongs in the high position of princess in the royal family of Thebes. ... She is Oedipus" daughter, which makes her next in line to the throne if anything should happen to her brothers. ...

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The Greek playwrite, Sophocles, wrote many exceptional plays. One of these is Antigone. The play is named after Oedipus's daughter, although it is primarily about her Uncle Creon. Creon is the focal point and it is his misjudgment and pride that causes his downfall. Yet, the title of this story ...

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The video of Antigone is as sad as the story of her father, Oedipus the former king of Thebes. ... Long ago Polyneices left Thebes to be with his father, Oedipus who was thrown out of Thebes because of an edict. ...

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The last of the Oedipus Plays is Antigone. The story is set in Thebes during the ancient Greece. Antigone is the daughter or King Oedipus. ... Currently in the story, the guards have brought Antigone in to the ruler and she openly admits to her deed. ... This quotation is very important to the overall story because to me it truly shows a huge side of Antigone's strength. ...

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Antigone tells the story of a brave girl's struggle to do what is right and the trials she had overcome to accomplish them. ... Also at the end of scene two the chorus tells of the sorrow upon all of Oedipus" children. ... The transition the chorus gives between each scene is much need information for a person to understand the story of Antigone. ... He is the leader of the Chorus and is very important to this story. ... Without the chorus in this play, this story would be very difficult to understand. ...

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Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers, and they are now the last children of Oedipus. ... Eurydice, Creon's wife and Haemon's mother, asks the Messenger if he will tell her the whole story. ...

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The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on their actions during a particular part of the story-line. ... The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. ... The next long dissertation by the chorus is a story which stresses the powers of the fates. This story can be compared to the life of Antigone because her life was supported and ultimately crushed by fate, as was Creon's. ...

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