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Tragedy is a description of an event that evokes a sympathetic feeling of emotion by the audience. The events involve people emotionally who were not involved in the situation physically. In the story of Antigone, Sophecles forces the audience to take pity on the poor girl's situation. This story impacts the audience in such a way that the audience becomes emotionally enthralled in the plot of the story. All of Steiner's, "Principle constants of conflict in the condition of man," (360) were present in the tragic tale of Antigone. The conflicts confirm a tragic sense about the story. In a tragedy drama is experienced and the characters typically suffer extremely. Consequently, this can happen because of a tragic mistake.
The first of the ageless conflicts of man is, "the confrontation of men and women" (360). This principle is applied in the conflict between Antigone and Creon. Antigone broke a law that her uncle, Creon, had created. As a result of this she was to......

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