Antigone and 9-11-01 Sophocles was well-versed in Tragedy, and these days everyone in America is as well. We are discovering what it is to be vulnerable, what is it to feel suffering and torment, and how to let loose a flood of emotions. Not surprisingly, these are some of the major purposes and functions of a Greek Tragedy, according to Aristotle anyway. The citizens of Ancient Greece went to see these very plays, Antigone …showed first 75 words of 2006 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2006 total…and once he tore them out, he saw all the wrongness that he had built his life upon. And the question we should ponder in Antigone, is when in comes down to it, whose laws are you going to follow, the God's laws, or those of man? There really are a lot of things that Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and the situation in America have in common. And I was expecting this paper to be short.