Assignment on the Antigone Overview

This is a satyr kind of play as it is describing the tragedies and losses Ismene and Antigone have gone through. Such plays depict the true mood of grief and sorrow of the people and this makes their sorrow open towards the audiences. The Chorus helps in storytelling in a way that it is making the audience interest more towards the play by keeping them indulged by singing poems for them. The moral character this play is playing is the view of the troubles and issues of the Greek in front of others is a form of a ship that is surrounded by troubles and problems and with hard work and all communities’ efforts the ship is safely delivered towards the harbour finally. The main theme was discussing the king Oedipus that was not a good king towards Greek people and which keeps them in strong trouble as after he there came King Laois who was devoted towards Greek and resolved their issues and make people relax and comfortable in their stay in Greek.

Antigone is somehow relevant to the current situation in the world as in many countries still there is such situation exists that some bad rulers are going to rule on people by troubling them with different threats and has made their life equal to hell. The play is a good way of showing the truly bad and worse side of some bad rulers who use to rule over the people just to give them trouble. The main thing is that rulers must take care of their people's troubles, sorrows and problems and they must be able to manage the workings efficiently as the people will more likely to have it in terms of keeping the workings efficiently and effectively. For example, the mentioned devotion of King Laois is exceptional and it is mentioned in the play as in this play it is also stated that their sons were better than Oedipus. Other things are the good portrait of problems before the audience in an attractive way that makes them realize facts (Fitts, 2018). 

Reference Antigone Overview

Fitts, D. (2018). Antigone. 1-41.