Aristotle's Advocate: Oedipus The Colon
Sri Guttikonda Aristotle’s Advocate: Oedipus The Colonus An ancient Greek play consists of many elements that allow to be defined as a tragedy. Some of these elements include catharsis, the overflow or release of an excessive amount of emotions, and hamartia, a fatal flaw that leads the main character’s, Oedipus’s, downfall. So far, a blind Oedipus who suffers a horrible fate because of his past wanders into Colonus, a city near Athens. There, Oedipus and his daughter, Antigone, have an unlikely encounter with some strangers. She requests for them to guide her father, she asks for them to “..pity her at least... grant [them] the help they never dreamed to see!”(Sophocles 255,263). This is an obvious plea for help, Antigone unleashes