Critical Analysis: Antigone by Sophocles

Critical Analysis: Antigone by Sophocles
Be careful of what you say and how you say it because you never know what fate has in store for you. This is one the points Sophocles gives his readers in his drama Antigone. The dialog of his drama is very compelling and intricate. Sophocles wrote this for an audience of people who were morally corrupt and in need of someone to tell them the consequences of their actions. To those people in ancient Greece, the dialog was easy to follow and the point was made clear but people today have to read and reread until the point is made clear. Also we get to find the meanings behind the words; we get to see what others don’t see. There are so many aspects of this play worth analyzing but the best of them all is the dialog that Sophocles created. In this essay you will see how there was more revealed than thought on first glance. You will see how Sophocles’ characters made predictions about themselves and how when you read the play again an...