Royal or noble status is common to tragic heroes. In the two tragedies, characters of royal or noble status were usually the most important characters in the play. Their high rank in society and influence on the less noble or peasant class often lead to their excessive pride or hubris. In the play Antigone, Creon exhibits his hubri

The tragic heroes Creon, Antigone, and Agamemnon compare and contrast. By studying these characters, we can see how the characterization techniques if both writers are similar and different. Sophocles dedicates the majority of the Antigone to character dialogue where else Aeschylus uses the commentary of the chorus to tell the story with brief conversations between the characters. In Antigone, we learn more about the characters through their spoken dialogues where else Aeschylus uses the monologues of the chorus in order to provide background information on the characters. Both methods are effective in arousing a catharsis of emotions in the audience. Ways in which the characters of the two works compare include excessive pride or hubris and family curses and the ways in which they contrast include characterization, realization of their error in judgement, and conflicts. In conclusion Aeschylus and Sophocles successfully demonstrated the range of characterization used in the development of a tragic hero. Aeschylus proved that not all tragic heroes are dynamic characters who must change at some point in the story because Agamemnon does not. Sophocles proved that there can be two opposing tragic heroes in a tragedy where neither side wins. These writers produced characters that compare and contrast.

I see Aeschylus' characterization of Agamemnon as more placid in comparison to Sophocles' characterization of Antigone and Creon. Agamemnon's character is relatively gullible and naive in comparison to Creon and Antigone. Agamemnon is to foolish to even recognize his own hubris before his death and is characterized as a flat character because his character remains unchanged by the events in the play and is virtually the same character he is at the beginning of the play until his final " Aaagh, again...second blow - struck home."4 Creon and Antigone, however, exhibit a series of complex emotions that give insight into the characters' emotions and the passion they feel towards their conflict. At the beginning of the conflict, both characters exhibit strong feelings towards their arguments, " Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way."5 At the end of the play, Creon waits too late to question his actions and must suffer. Creon, Antigone, and Agamemnon ar

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