Sophocles Detailed Analysis

Title: Sophocles Detailed Analysis
Category: Literature / English
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Sophocles Detailed Analysis

Blind to his failings When powerful leaders abuse their influence, they often refuse to concede that they are wrong. They believe that they always make the right and justifiable decision, since someone chose them to take responsibility over a group of people, so they must have the best judgment out of everyone. The same idea applies to King Creon in Sophocles’s play Antigone, who orders his men to wall up the daughter of Oedipus, …showed first 75 words of 1084 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1084 total…that Creon is able to still save Antigone, but rather vividly explains his point of view to Creon, which ensures Antigone’s death. Of course this could be due to the seer’s age, which might mean that he is senile, as well as slow. But then why would the gods choose him as the one to transmit the truth to Creon? Would that mean that the gods share some of the guilt as well?

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