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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the plays and characters in terms of hamartia (or tragic flaw of the hero), revenge, incest, pursuit of justice, and irony. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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mythical tales into stories of depth that had social relevance for the times in which they were written. The protagonists of each work had not only incestuous bloodlines in
common. Both possessed tragic flaws (though depicted differently), were subconsciously motivated by revenge and incest, were noble figures dedicated to the pursuit of justice, and finally, were undone by
their own actions in poignant irony. Oedipus and Antigone were, in essence, two halves of the same honorable but ultimately tortured soul. For those unfamiliar with the story of
Oedipus the King, the plot involves the city of Thebes, which has been under relentless siege due to a mysterious illness that has reached epidemic proportions. A troubled king
seeks to cure his ailing people of their unknown curse: "Thebes is dying. There is a blight on the crops of the land, on the ranging herds of cattle,
on the still-born labor of our women. The fever-god swoops down on us, hateful plague, he hounds the city and empties the houses of Thebes. The black god of
death is made rich with wailing and funeral laments" (Sophocles 3). After sending Creon on a fact-finding mission, Oedipus learns that the disease is the god Apollos punishment because
the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He sets out to secure the loyalty and devotion of his subjects by appeasing Apollo and avenging
the late kings murder by exposing the identity of the killer. Of course, it never occurs to Oedipus (who is not a native of Thebes) that he could be
the murderer. As he later discovers, the unknown man he killed in a traffic dispute many years ago was King Laius, his biological father, which means that his wife
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