of Shakespeare and antiquity most directly, and the tragic hero is still the person with a tragic flaw that prevents him or her from salvation.
Antigone takes place in a time of war, and here Sophocles explores the relationship between the gods and their human followers. Antigone is the third play by Sophocles to address some element of the legend of Oedipus, but the three plays are not a formal trilogy as they were written at different times. The essence of the Oedipus myth revolves around personal responsibility in the Greek conception. Even though Oedipus appears to be the victim of a series of circumstances so that what happens to him should be no fault of his own, in the Greek view this is not the case. The key play for the character of Antigone is the third, Antigone, in which she is shown to be very much like her father, ultimately leading to her downfall as well. She shows the same stubbornness as she vows to bury her brother Polynices in spite of the refusal on the part of the Creon to allow thi
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