Empathy for Characters in Sophocle's Antigone

Title: Empathy for Characters in Sophocle's Antigone
Category: Literature / European Literature | Words: 2285 | Pages: 9.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Empathy for Characters in Sophocle's Antigone

Sophocle's tragic play Antigone, written in 441 BC, is a theatrical piece of drama in which an audience is compelled to empathize with its character's. When empathizing with characters in Antigone the audience can, in imaginative and cognitive ways, participate in the understanding of a character's feelings, ideas as well as their situations. Antigone, Creon and Ismene all struggle with decisions that concern the laws of their city and the cosmic law of religion and moral …showed first 75 words of 2285 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2285 total…the interpretation of the play and decides which issues are important: like being faced with decisions that have to be made regardless of whether you are in a fit mind to. 'Wisdom is by far the greatest part of joy, and reverence toward the gods must be safeguarded. The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.' (chorus, p128)

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