For more than 2,500 years, Sophocles was one of the greatest playwrights, and his work continues to be studied. His two plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, are part of the Oedipus Cycle of plays. Oedipus Rex, the first play featured in the Oedipus Cycle, reveals the past of the main character, Oedipus. As a baby, Oedipus was meant to be killed to avoid a prophecy. Instead, he grew up to unknowingly murder his father, Laius, and marry his mother, Jocasta. Sophocles’ second play, Antigone, features Oedipus’ daughter, Antigone, and how she defies Oedipus’ brother, Creon. Antigone refuses to obey to Creon, the newly crowned king, by burying her brother, Polyneices. In Sophocles’ two plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, it is evident that pride is caused
