Oedipus Re x- Greek Drama Themes - Strug & Rebell

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA THEMES

STRUGGLE AND REBELLION...

Greek tragedies all depicted struggles of some sort, most commonly between the state and individuals, between human law and natural law, or between human efforts and preordained fate. In many Greek tragedies, it is the person who rebels against the established order of things who becomes the hero or heroine. Sophocles’ Antigone depicts some of these struggles. Antigone defies her uncle Creon, the king of Thebes, when she performs burial rites for her brother.

In doing so, Antigone elevates the need to follow the laws of the Gods, who decree that her brother must be buried, above the laws of Creon, who declared such burial illegal in the cawe of Antigone’s brother, because he brought an army against his home city. As punishment for her disobedience, her uncle sentences her to death. At the end of the play, Creon, who has placed his decree above the command of the Gods, is Himself punished through the suicides of his wife and son.

Sophocles’ Oedipus the Ki9ng demonstrates the human effort to escape preordained fate. Oedipus’ parents –Laius and Jocasta-attempt to thwart the oracles that tell them their son will murder his father and marry his mother. As the myth and the play bear out, despite their efforts to change fate, Oedipus fulfils this prophecy.

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