Question: Discuss and analyse the themes which arise in Sophocles’ Antigone.
Answer: In his Poetics, Aristotle set the guidelines for the form of tragedy, using Oedipus the King as his ideal model. Tragedy is usually concerned with a person of great stature, a king or nobleman, who falls because of hubris, or pride. There are unities of time, place and most importantly action. Action may be thought of as motive or “movement of spirit.” In Oedipus, the action is to find Laius’s killer and stop the plague. Antigone is a strange case because the “movement of spirit” comes from two directions with both protagonists having different sets of values....(short extract)
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- Subject: Classical Studies
- Course: Classical Studies
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 65%
- Words: 2946
- Date submitted: April 17, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1433
