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Antigone and Medea Compare and Contrast
Antigone and Medea are both very similar and different in many ways. They demonstrate Aristotle's classical definition of tragedy. Medea is a play based on the trials of Medea whose husband, Jason, commits infidelity on her with the King Creon's daughter. She is so crushed by this that she has to get revenge on Jason by killing both of their children and his new wife and father. There's some form of tragedy in almost every scene from Medea. The play Antigone begins when Antigone defies the King's law and buries her brother, so that he won't go to hell. In doing this, Antigone is sentenced to death but Haemon, the King's son, is very defiant because Antigone is his fianc. Antigone kills herself rather than being killed by someone else, and in doing that Haemon and the King's wife kill themselves too. There is very obvious tragedy throughout this play.
One of Aristotle's rules fitting the example of a classical tragedy is pathos...