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King Creon And King Oedipus - Online Paper

King Creon And King Oedipus

are both alike and different in nature. Both are supposedly naive people with simplistic ambitions. Each one, though seemingly different, comply with what human nature craves to have. Each one may do things differently but they do it with the same ambitions and motives. In the plays Sophocles wrote, each character has characteristics that are a part of us. However, Sophocles made the characters somewhat exaggerated when compared to the way we act.
In the plays "Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus", Oedipus is portrayed as an individual that lets overbearing pride and dignity blind him from what is happening around him. One example is when he met king Laios at the crossroads near Thebes. ...

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and found nothing but disaster. Both the plays Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus describe what happens to us individuals when we let our human nature take over and blind us.
In the final play "Antigone", the tragic hero is King Creon. In the previous plays, King Creon seemed like a reasonable man who would listen to other people's advice (unlike Oedipus). However, when he becomes king, he begins to neglect this reasonable side of him and follows down the fateful path of Oedipus. He believes he is justified in not burying Polyneices. Because of this, he becomes stubborn. He neglects Antigone and the people of Thebes when they advise him to bury the body of Polyneices. He then sentences Antigone to confinement in a solitary cell. When this happens, he finally realizes what he has done; he finally begins to listen to the people around him. However, by then it is too late and disaster strikes again.
The tragic heroes of the Oedipus Cycle teach us a common lesson. Both Creon ...

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Added: 3/21/2005 01:07:18 AM
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