Antigone All My Sons

According to Aristotle, a tragedy is a form of theater that replicates a solemn action with the intention of stirring dread and sympathy in the viewer. Sophocles’ Antigone and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons both fit into this category. Both stories consist of a tragic hero, Creon and Joe Keller in this instance. According to Aristotle’s Poetics, a tragic hero is someone not all good or all bad, and whose downfall is caused …

…her life to crumble. Tragic heroes are all similar to the common man, who is anything but perfect. They are also alike amongst themselves, because they are created to teach us the same lesson. Now and then, we learn from tragedies as common people to avoid making the same errors the tragic heroes make. By doing this, we can perhaps live a better, happier life. Bibliography Antigone by Sophocles All My Sons, by Arthur Miller