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Provide a 6 pages analysis while answering the following question: The Adherence To Principles Shown by Oedipus and Antigone. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Provide a 6 pages analysis while answering the following question: The Adherence To Principles Shown by Oedipus and Antigone. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. 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, in which ideas of duty and honour towards one’s country and in particular the resistance movement were very important. .
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, 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. .
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 duty to bury her brother, even though she knows that it will result in her execution: when asked why she stole past the guards in the middle of the night to try and bury him, she declares, ‘I had to’, and describes her belief that ‘people who aren’t buried wander for ever in search of rest’.
