Oedipus Rex And Antigone Research Paper
Professor Pluta
English 1B
5 December 2013
When Pride Leads to Tragedy Pride has forever been seen as a negative characteristic. In the Holy Bible, it is seen as a characteristic of the devil. The devil 's pride led him to the desire to be more powerful than God. As a result, he was expelled from the holy kingdom and sentenced to live among society. That has been a tragedy for humanity because the devil brought all of his evil with him and spread it among the living. It was God 's will to expel him from the heavens and it is now the will of society whether to live as proud as the devil. A character of pride is a person that is arrogant and too stubborn to understand reasoning, so to speak. In the plays Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, similar scenarios are present in the way that there are those characters who live with pride and try to prevent the wills of the gods. The one difference in these two plays is that the main characters are of the opposite sex, which readers may conclude …show more content…
In Oedipus Rex, the pride of Oedipus makes him belief that he will not abide by the rules of the gods, so he flees only to find out later in the play by the messenger that he has fulfilled the prophecy. His pride is also demonstrated when he is on the highway and kills his father. His rage at knowing the prophecy led him to fulfill it; what a tragedy. In the play Antigone, the pride of Creon led to the tragedy of the death of his family. His prideful being decided to give death to Antigone and his son, fiancee of Antiogne, could not tolerate it. The messenger Teresias has advised Creon not to kill Antigone and although he stays strong to his will, in the end he gives in but it turns out to be too late. The prophecy that he would loose his family came true. The messenger returns to the people and says that Haimon, Creon 's son, was
English 1B
5 December 2013
When Pride Leads to Tragedy Pride has forever been seen as a negative characteristic. In the Holy Bible, it is seen as a characteristic of the devil. The devil 's pride led him to the desire to be more powerful than God. As a result, he was expelled from the holy kingdom and sentenced to live among society. That has been a tragedy for humanity because the devil brought all of his evil with him and spread it among the living. It was God 's will to expel him from the heavens and it is now the will of society whether to live as proud as the devil. A character of pride is a person that is arrogant and too stubborn to understand reasoning, so to speak. In the plays Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, similar scenarios are present in the way that there are those characters who live with pride and try to prevent the wills of the gods. The one difference in these two plays is that the main characters are of the opposite sex, which readers may conclude …show more content…
In Oedipus Rex, the pride of Oedipus makes him belief that he will not abide by the rules of the gods, so he flees only to find out later in the play by the messenger that he has fulfilled the prophecy. His pride is also demonstrated when he is on the highway and kills his father. His rage at knowing the prophecy led him to fulfill it; what a tragedy. In the play Antigone, the pride of Creon led to the tragedy of the death of his family. His prideful being decided to give death to Antigone and his son, fiancee of Antiogne, could not tolerate it. The messenger Teresias has advised Creon not to kill Antigone and although he stays strong to his will, in the end he gives in but it turns out to be too late. The prophecy that he would loose his family came true. The messenger returns to the people and says that Haimon, Creon 's son, was