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I will pay for the following essay English. The essay is to be 7 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.Although this stubbornness is certainly an important fact
I will pay for the following essay English. The essay is to be 7 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.
Although this stubbornness is certainly an important factor in each character’s downfall, there is also a very definite sense in both plays that the events are preordained. In Oedipus the King, the oracles predict the events of the play with pinpoint accuracy: however much the characters strive to avoid their predictions,
they nevertheless come true. In Antigone, the Prologue and Chorus on several occasions draw the attention of the audience to the fact that the events are inevitable: here there is also the sense that they are inevitable because they are written in the play.
The moral principles of duty and honour are important both to Oedipus and to Antigone – this reflects the opinions of the societies in which the two plays were written: there were very strong notions of honour in the ancient Greek society which would have been the original audience for Oedipus the King. likewise, Antigone was written for a French audience in the grip of the second World War (it premiered in 1944), in which ideas of duty and honour towards one’s country and in particular the resistance movement were very important. Oedipus invokes the idea of honour and divine retribution for a dishonourable act when he curses the man who murdered Laius:
Oedipus then expresses great surprise that anyone should choose this dishonour rather than coming forward and accepting guilt: this shows the importance of the moral principle of honour for him. He also speaks of honour between man and man (as opposed to man and god), when he describes Creon’s ‘impudence’ (line 534) in coming to see him. So, it can be seen that the notion of honour is present in everything Oedipus does. Hence, when he discovers that he himself is to blame for the murder of Laius, he feels bound by honour to mete out his own curse upon himself:
The same adherence to the ideas of honour, duty and justice can be seen in the character of Antigone. Antigone feels that she has a
