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Antigone: A critical Essay To understand Antigone, we must look first into the very nature of its archetypal form, the Greek Tragedy. Sophocles created the genre, its players, and the structures of the story form itself; Antigone, when paired with Oedipus, represent the very beginning of tragic drama. In this play, Sophocles’ work is the embodiment of Aristotelian ideals – a central character whom we admire, but possesses a fatal flaw that eventually leads directly to his downfall (and often the downfall of many others as well). In Antigone, we find a character whose dedication to her father, Oedipus Rex, is as intense and genuine as humany possible. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the nature of Antigone and its effectiveness as a tragedy.
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