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Antigone and Creon
Title: Antigone and Creon
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1507 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Antigone and Creon
Theater played a large role in ancient Greek society. The citizens were meant to learn from the mistakes made in tragedies. They should have learned what not to be like as a citizen or human. In the classic tragedy Antigone, the third and final play in Sophoclesıs Oedipus Cycle, there are two main characters, Antigone and Creon. They are both strong willed and stubborn people. By their resistance to change, they both seal each …showed first 75 words of 1507 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1507 total…not see it. The flaws they share make neither of them willing to listen to the other. Many of their traits are identical, but their opinion s are so different that they can't stand each other. Sophocles did an excellent job in portraying the two vast extremes of the spectrum, passion and reason. This story hopefully proves to people that neither extreme passion nor extreme reason, but rather be in the middle and achieve arete.
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