Antigone Compare & Contrast

“Antigone” is a Greek Tragedy that employs Greek stasimon, or a chorus between the action parts of the play. The conventions of this play are by acting against the gods, Creon brought disaster upon himself. The moral of the story is every action has a consequence. Creon’s consequences were the…

In The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone and Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth both of the protagonists are not equally guilty. Augustus was more innocent due to the atmosphere of the pre-Civil War South. Oedipus freely made his decisions. When Oedipus…