What are the types of tragedy? Domestic tragedy. Senecan tragedy. Revenge tragedy. Heroic play. What are 3 rules that Greek tragedy must follow? These three rules suggest that a tragedy have unity of place, time and action: Place.
The setting of the play should be one location Oedipus Rex takes place on the steps outside the palace.
What makes a good tragedy? What is the purpose of tragedy? In the Poetics, Aristotle wrote that the purpose of Tragedy is to evoke a wonder born of pity and fear, the result of which is cathartic. What makes a tragic hero? Tragic hero as defined by Aristotle.
Creon declares Polyneices not to be buried, punishes and kills Antigone for trying to give her brother a proper burial, lets no one mourn his death SP4. Both characters were challenged together in separate ways with both unfortunate outcomes. She buried her dear brother out of familial love and duty to the gods. Kreon, who had previously stated that anyone who would dare defy his edict would suffer death, sentenced his own niece to death.
Everyone, it seems, was opposed to Kreon's order. Referring to this fatal flaw, Sophocles notes that "Kreon has shown there is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider" Kreon had earlier stated, "I believe that he who rules in a state and fails to embrace the best men's counsels, but stays locked in silence and vague fear, is the worst man there" Oedipus was appalled that the citizens of Thebes had not done this already.
Oedipus begged and pleaded that if any of the citizens knew anything about the murder to come forward. That if the people helped him that he would not cause them harm, even if that person were even the guilty party, he would just exile them so that Thebes could prosper. Oedipus calls for the prophet only to learn that he was the one that murdered the king.
Oedipus was beside himself with grief, the one thing he had tried to prevent his entire adult life had come true without his knowledge.
No one realized the magnitude of grief Hamlet was going through. At one point, he even speaks of wanting his flesh to melt and how meaningless he feels life is. Open Document. Creon orders that Antigone be taken to a cave and left to starve; she is led away. He then receives word from a prophet that the gods will punish him for putting a living soul underground and keeping a dead body above ground. Creon dismisses the prophecy, but the chorus of citizens convinces him to go save Antigone and bury Polyneices.
He rushes to her tomb, too late. He finds two dead bodies there. Creon started from a position of defending the civil order: Traitors must be punished, and those who show love for them are equally traitors.
But his principles lead to the deaths of many, including his son, Haemon, who was not a rebel, only a young man in love. Haemon was a moderate, who, with Ismene, tried to persuade Antigone and Creon to drop their intransigence.
Ultimately, however, they too were dragged over the edge into chaos and violence. Every character in the play was forced to enter the arena of good versus evil, either because they loved each other, or they loved their own convictions.
It is impossible for any character to remain in the middle — they are forced to the extremes, where death or grief are either chosen or thrust on them. There was a rule made from the king of Thebes stated that no one can mourn for or bury him. But Antigone did not care she still loved Polyneices and thought that he deserved to have a proper burial like his brother Eteocles. With the strength that he had left he held Antigone close to him because he loved her.
The audience was expecting for Haimon to kill his father but instead he pulled out his sword and kill himself to be closer to antigone. Nemesis and peripeteia are not the only things that are being used in the story, Another one is catharsis being used with mood.
Catharsis is when the audience is feeling pity for the hero's downfall. The audience feels pity for the characters because of how her death caused haimon to also take his own life. Which caused more grief in the story even if it wasn't only antigones family that have people that have dead.
Almost everyone in her family is gone all that's left is her sister Ismene. All of these signs of literary devices are to help the audience give more imagery as they are watching or reading. As stated in the intro paragraph these three devices of peripeteia, catharsis, and nemesis are there to be compared to the literary devices of foreshadowing, situational irony, and with mood.
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