A review by zb1113
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
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Lots of beautiful language in Fagles translation. Great introduction to each play that lays out context and themes.
Grief, guilt vs responsibility, Desert, free will vs fate vs divine foreknowledge, duty to ones loved ones vs ones country, filial/social guilt and responsibility.
Antigone as "embodiment of only consolation that tragedy can offer - the in certain heroic natures unmerited suffering and death can be met with a greatness of soul, which, because it is purely human, brings honor to us all."
Oedipus as a play "not a picture of mans utter feebleness caught in the toils of fate, but on the contrary, a heroic example of mans dedication to the search for the truth, the truth about himself. This is perhaps the only human freedom, the play seems to say, but there could be none more noble."
Colonus - Oedipus rises from his blinded and feeble state to lead and prophesy of future
Lots of beautiful language in Fagles translation. Great introduction to each play that lays out context and themes.
Grief, guilt vs responsibility, Desert, free will vs fate vs divine foreknowledge, duty to ones loved ones vs ones country, filial/social guilt and responsibility.
Antigone as "embodiment of only consolation that tragedy can offer - the in certain heroic natures unmerited suffering and death can be met with a greatness of soul, which, because it is purely human, brings honor to us all."
Oedipus as a play "not a picture of mans utter feebleness caught in the toils of fate, but on the contrary, a heroic example of mans dedication to the search for the truth, the truth about himself. This is perhaps the only human freedom, the play seems to say, but there could be none more noble."
Colonus - Oedipus rises from his blinded and feeble state to lead and prophesy of future