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Antigone Characterization This essay will illustrate the types of characters depicted in Sophocles sad drama, Antigone, whether static or projectile, flat or round, and whether portrayed through the show or telling technique. Martin Heidegger in The Ode on Man in Sophocles Antigone explains, in a rather involved theory, the destruction of Creons character The contravention between the overwhelming presence of the essent as a whole and troopss violent being-there creates the conjecture of downf each(prenominal) into the issueless and placeless disaster. But disaster and the possibility of disaster do not occur only at the end, when a single act of power fails, when the violent one makes a glum move no, this disaster is fundamental, it governs and waits in the conflict between violence and the overpowering. force out against the preponderant power of being must shatter against being, if being rules in its essence, as physics, as emerging power(98). The dialogue, action an d motivation revolve nearly the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). Werner Jaeger in Sophocles Mastery of Character Development pays the playwright the very highest compliment with regard to character development The ineffaceable impression which Sophocles makes on us today and his imperishable position in the literature of the human beings are both due to his character-drawing. If we ask which of the men and women of Greek cataclysm have an independent life in the imagination apart from the lay out and from the actual plot in which they appear, we must answer, those created by Sophocles, above all others (36). Surely it can be said of Sophocles main characters that they grow beyond the two dimension... ...ment of his edict he changes after Teiresias visit and warning. Ismene and Haemon become dynamic later in the tragedy. Rarely does the dramatist use the chorus to use up information most of this comes from exchanges of dialogue, which would be the showing technique. WORKS CITED Abrams, M. H. A polish of Literary Terms, 7th ed. New York Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Antigone by Sophocles. Translated by R. C. Jebb. no pag. http//classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html Heidegger, Martin. The Ode on Man in Sophocles Antigone. In Sophocles A Collection of fine Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Jaeger, Werner. Sophocles Mastery of Character Development. In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1997.