everyone who is close to her making it easier for her to go through her difficult experience. This is something noble. Likewise, Oedipus is not condemned to suffer by fate. He continues to make choices, which do not turn out. His final blinding was not demanded by fate, it was an admission that he could not fight fate blinded as he had been. Now his vision was opened to his inner soul and progress could be made. Ultimately everyone must rise above the suffering that is inevitable. In “Antigone”, Creon may also be considered that of a tragic figure as well. There are many similarities between Creon and Antigone. Perhaps the most common characteristic is that both characters are very stubborn. Neither one can back down once the lines have been drawn, even though it means certain destruction. Creon shows many heroic characteristics. A hero is a person who must survive many downfalls, and Creon has suffered many setbacks. He is obviously not entirely good or just, and he does make mistakes. His greatest error is issuing the decree forbidding anyone from giving Polynices a proper funeral. However, he does not do this entirely out of spite or anger, but instead to protect his country.Drawing conclusions as to the true nature of Greek tragedy. As has been seen, the dramas time and again show a mortal will, engaged in an unequal struggle with destiny, whether that destiny be represented by the forces within or without the mind. The conflict reaches its tragic issue when the individual perishes. The tragic issue, the defeat of the individual, leads to the realization that human presumption to determine one’s destiny is necessarily ruinous. Greek tragedy, then, deals with the most fundamental issue that exists at all: man’s relationship to the gods. The underlying question of all these dramas concerns the laws and standards by which the gods let man live. It is the paradox of tragedy that it will never yield ...
