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Antigone motion-picture show This essay will illustrate the types of characters depicted in Sophocles tragic drama, Antigone, whether inactive or dynamic, flat or round, and whether portrayed through the showing 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 conflict in the midst of the overwhelming presence of the essent as a whole and mans violent being-there creates the possibility of downfall into the issueless and placeless misfortune. But disaster and the possibility of disaster do not occur only at the end, when a hit act of power fails, when the violent one makes a false drive no, this disaster is fundamental, it governs and waits in the conflict between violence and the overpowering. Violence against the prevalent power of being must shatter against being, if being rules in its essence, as physics, as emerging power(98). The dialogue, action and motivat ion revolve about the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). Werner Jaeger in Sophocles Mastery of Character Development pays the dramatist the genuinely 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 world ar both due to his character-drawing. If we ask which of the men and women of Greek tragedy constitute an independent life in the imagination apart from the stage and from the unquestionable plot in which they appear, we must answer, those created by Sophocles, above all others (36). for sure it can be said of Sophocles main characters that they grow beyond the devil dimension... ...ment of his edict he changes after Teiresias visit and warning. Ismene and Haemon become dynamic afterwards in the tragedy. Rarely does the dramatist use the chorus to convey cultivation most of this comes from exchanges of dialogue, which would be the showing tech nique. WORKS CITED Abrams, M. H. A Glossary 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 Critical Essays, modify 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.