In the plays, Krapp's Last Tape and Antigone, classic stories of love and loss were portrayed. The main characters of both plays each made a choice in which they suffered its consequence. Specifically, Antigone choose to bury her brother, Polynecies, after his death which in t

Although in both plays the main characters had suffered loss after they had made their choices, in Antigone, the main character had made the crucial choice of her life due to a loss she had suffered prior. The plays differ further by the specific reasoning of the choices made. Krapp wanted his love but for whatever reason he was unable to stay with her. Perhaps there was a mutual collapse of the relationship or maybe the communication was bad, but either way he suffered the loss of her. Antigone's choice, on the other hand, was mainly an unselfish one. There was nothing really good in the burial of her brother for herself. Also Antigone dealt with the gods of the time where Krapp's Last Tape was a self-centered play only dealing with Krapp's own problems.

The writing styles of the plays were also extremely different with respect to the plots of each. In Krapp's Last Tape the only thing that happened was that Krapp listened to s

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