Antigone
Antigone
The main theme for Antigone is that people sometimes have to learn the hard way from
their mistakes. This theme is expressed in the final four lines of the play. They read, There is no
happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are
always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. These lines are an important part of
the play. They …
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…to compromise. Those
characteristics have been shown to signify great suffering and destruction.
Bibliography
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2. Aristotle. Poetics, XIII.3-6
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