Victimization of Children in Six Dramas

In Antigone the actions of AntigoneÆs father are responsible for the death of her brother at the hands of Creon. Antigone will die because she cannot abide by CreonÆs rule because he will not provide proper burial to her brother. When she stands against him, he has no choice but to have her executed. Not only Antigone but also her sister Ismene has been victimized by their association with their father, Oedipus. When Antigone goes against Creon and buries her brother, Ismene warns her that their fatherÆs fate has taught her to fear the law and its consequences, (Sophocles 1960).

In Oedipus the King, OedipusÆ father victimized him by trying to have him killed as a child. When that plan fails, Oedipus is raised by a man who finds him where his father abandoned him. Eventually Hamlet will encounter his father but does not know him. In an ensuing struggle, he murders his father. Unbeknownst to Oedipus, he then marries his mother and bears children with her. When Thebes is plagued by a variety of ills, Oedipus considers his duty to avenge his fatherÆs murder

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