Antigone__The_Similarities_Between_Creon_And_Oedipus_Rex

Antigone: The Similarities Between Creon And Oedipus Rex Oedipus the King and Antigone are two literary works that are part a trilogy of plays written by Sophocles, one of the greatest poets of ancient Greece. Like all Greek tragedies, both plays contain a tragic hero or heroine who is ultimately destined for destruction. Oedipus is the unfortunate character with the tragic flaw in Oedipus the King, while Antigone faces death at the end of the latter for her flaws. Although Antigone is the tragic heroine and focal point of the second play of the series, her uncle, Creon, possesses many of the same flaws and faces a very similar fate in Antigone as Antigone's father, Oedipus, does in the first tragedy. Both characters are proud and pompous men, who are stubborn and impulsive, and are unwilling to listen to the advice that is given to them until it is too late, and their lives are ruined. Also, each man kills a member of his family and, at the end of each play, is left with a miserable and lonely existence. At the opening of Scene I of Oedipus the King, the reader finds Oedipus to be a pompous, arrogant man. His character exudes antigone, oedipus, creon, both, tiresias, same, own, king, after, two, man, himself, end, each, death, characters, wife, very, ultimately, tragic, suicide, stubborn, son, reader, plays, play, orders, niece, miserable, men, life, hated, finds, father, fate