Both plays illustrate the fact that trying to make yourself better off in life will only end up in pain if you lose sight of the important things in life like family and friends. This is a comparison of the two plays Mother courage and Antigone.

Oedipus is the tragic hero of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and translated by Robert Fagles. There is much that characterizes him as a tragic hero.

Antigone, a woman, the cello. Creon, a king, the Bass. And the orchestra lay dead. Foolishness kills his family.