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The Greek playwright, Sophocles wrote the last play in the Theban Trilogy, Antigone, around 442 B.C. The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. The play was considered the last of the three but was ironically written first. Only seven of Sophocles's one hundred twenty three tragedies have survived the fire of the great library intact. The most famous of the three plays is Antigone. In the play Antigone the characters Creon and Antigone come to bitter ends because of similar character flaws. Creon and Antigone are both stubborn and rigid and have extreme views on government laws and ideals and both have psychological problems that lead to their downfall.
They are both inflexible and stubborn people. Both being unwilling to change, they both seal each other's fate. Creon is passionate. Antigone is full of rage. They are both so similar they can't see eye to eye. Creon and Antigone share many similarities throughout the story. They are both very......

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