Category: Book Antigone 6

The tragedy written by Sophocles starts from the chorus, reciting the previous events. There once was king Oedipus, a wize and noble man of tragic fate, who ruled Thebes. He did everything he could to avoid his fate – to kill his father and to sleep with his mother – but everything Oedipus did, rightful…

The Theme of Fatalism in Antigone Tragedies involve a regular person experiencing a reversal in fortune because he or she results in a catharsis arousing fear and pity of the audience. In Greek tragedies, fatalism plays a dominant role in doing so as one is not a free agent because future(in tragedies, reversal of fortune)…