Acting on emotions is used in Ancient Greek plays to show audience members and society how to act. It was often shown in the plays that the characters acting on emotions rather than in a logical way lead them to a bad situation. In Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Oedipus, the king of Thebes, has to find out who has killed the former king, Laius. In a horrible twist of fate, he finds out that Laius is his father whom he killed, and the queen whom Oedipus is married to is actually his mother. In Antigone, the story goes on to tell the fate of Oedipus’ daughter who wants to honor her dead brother by burial, but the act is prohibited by the present king Creon, Antigone’s uncle. Creon puts law over family and puts Antigone to death, which ends poorly
