Antigone and the Death of a Salesman
Most plays focus on a central theme. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Antigone by Sophocles are two examples of plays which use betrayal as their central theme. Antigone is a Greek play by Sophocles. It is a Greek tragedy full of loyalty, betrayal, love and death. The play Antigone features many central themes with betrayal being the main theme of the story. The theme of betrayal is evident in the beginning of the play when the king Creon betrays his people’s faith in him, his family and his gods. Creon was the king and his duty was to defend his people and the god given traditions. However, he goes ahead to enact a law that disrespects the gods tradition of proper burial procedures for the people …show more content…
Polyneices was the son of Oedipus who was king and left the kingship to Polyneices and his brother Eteocles who refused to give up the throne. Therefore, when the time for Polyneices to become king came and his brother refused to give up the throne, he raised an army attack on Thebes causing the death of the two brothers. Their uncle Creon took over the leadership because Polyneices had betrayed his people by fighting against his own people. The decree of not burying him was given because of his betrayal of his own land. Polyneices wanted to be king so badly and he could do anything including betraying his own people and fighting his …show more content…
Willy betrayed his family and the love his wife had for him and eloping with the mistress led to his downfall. Willy constantly pushed his family to be successful and this makes him crazy. Willy constantly talks of his son’s achievement and pushes him to be the best. But as the story progresses, Biff feels that, his father betrayed him by what he used to tell him about success. On the other hand, Willy feels betrayed by his son Biff’s incapability to succeed in life, in spite of the encouragements he had given him to be able to succeed. Willy had put his expectations and dreams on hi son Biff, but the son dropped all his ambitions after he felt his father had betrayed him together with his mother. Therefore, both Will and his son Biff felt
Most plays focus on a central theme. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Antigone by Sophocles are two examples of plays which use betrayal as their central theme. Antigone is a Greek play by Sophocles. It is a Greek tragedy full of loyalty, betrayal, love and death. The play Antigone features many central themes with betrayal being the main theme of the story. The theme of betrayal is evident in the beginning of the play when the king Creon betrays his people’s faith in him, his family and his gods. Creon was the king and his duty was to defend his people and the god given traditions. However, he goes ahead to enact a law that disrespects the gods tradition of proper burial procedures for the people …show more content…
Polyneices was the son of Oedipus who was king and left the kingship to Polyneices and his brother Eteocles who refused to give up the throne. Therefore, when the time for Polyneices to become king came and his brother refused to give up the throne, he raised an army attack on Thebes causing the death of the two brothers. Their uncle Creon took over the leadership because Polyneices had betrayed his people by fighting against his own people. The decree of not burying him was given because of his betrayal of his own land. Polyneices wanted to be king so badly and he could do anything including betraying his own people and fighting his …show more content…
Willy betrayed his family and the love his wife had for him and eloping with the mistress led to his downfall. Willy constantly pushed his family to be successful and this makes him crazy. Willy constantly talks of his son’s achievement and pushes him to be the best. But as the story progresses, Biff feels that, his father betrayed him by what he used to tell him about success. On the other hand, Willy feels betrayed by his son Biff’s incapability to succeed in life, in spite of the encouragements he had given him to be able to succeed. Willy had put his expectations and dreams on hi son Biff, but the son dropped all his ambitions after he felt his father had betrayed him together with his mother. Therefore, both Will and his son Biff felt