Parallel characteristic behaviors can be found in both the characters Oedipus from the play Oedipus the King and Creon from the play Antigone. At first glance, Oedipus and Creon are two very different people. Oedipus is brash and thoughtless, whilst Creon is wise and prudent. Oedipus becomes arrogant and brash. This causes them to punish him severely. Creon is the exact antithesis of Oedipus. He thinks before he acts, and that gives him the characteristics behavior of a parallel character.
But as time progresses their personalities and even their fates grow more and more similar. Parallel and foil characters in Sophocles have many purposes and uses in both the plays Oedipus the King and Antigone.
Adding motives of foil and parallel characters behind every character, helped make the suspense of the play much stronger. Certain characters and events are mirrored and go through similar sequences in both plays. The author uses parallel and foil characters as a way to illustrate and help the reader understand the main character characteristic, and the opposite of the main character characteristics, who is the foil character, and therefor serves to magnify certain characteristics of the main character.
Antigone by Sophocles. Character Roles Protagonist Antagonist Foil. But unlike Oedipus, she doesn't have sex with her mom. Had to put that out there. Antigone to Creon Antigone and Creon are vastly different characters. Antigone to Ismene In a sense, Antigone and Ismene are foils. Logging out…. Logging out You've been inactive for a while, logging you out in a few seconds I'm Still Here!
W hy's T his F unny? They are eternally indifferent, innocent, and ready to serve.. Largely indistinguishable from his cohorts, the Second Guard jeeringly compares Antigone to an exhibitionist upon her arrest.
The last of the indifferent Guardsmen, he is also largely indistinguishable from his cohorts. Another typical figure of Greek drama who also appears in Sophocles' Antigone, the Messenger is a pale and solitary boy who bears the news of death. In the prologue, he casts a menacing shadow: as the Chorus notes, he remains apart from the others in his premonition of Haemon's death. Creon's attendant.
The Page is a figure of young innocence. He sees all, understands nothing, and is no help to anyone but one day may become either a Creon or an Antigone in his own right. Creon's kind, knitting wife whose only function, as the Chorus declares, is to knit in her room until it is her time to die.
Her suicide is Creon's last punishment, leaving him entirely alone. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Important Quotes Explained. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Characters Character List. Antigone The play's tragic heroine.
Creon Antigone's uncle. Ismene Blonde, full-figured, and radiantly beautiful, the laughing, talkative Ismene is the good girl of the family. Nurse A traditional figure in Greek drama, the Nurse is an addition to the Antigone legend.
Chorus Anouilh reduces the Chorus, who appears as narrator and commentator.
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