Antigone The main theme for Antigone is that people sometimes have to learn the hard way from their mistakes. This theme is expressed in the final four lines of the play. They read, There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. These lines are an important part of the play. They …showed first 75 words of 1699 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1699 total…to compromise. Those characteristics have been shown to signify great suffering and destruction. Bibliography 1. Gillespie, Sheena and Fonseca, Terezinha and Sanger, Carol A.-3rd ed. (2001).Literature across cultures, Allyn & Bacon, Antigone 953-981 2. Aristotle. Poetics, XIII.3-6 3. Calder, William M. III (1968). Sophokles' Political Tragedy, Antigone.GRBS 9, 389-407 4. Hogan, James C. (1972). The Protagonists of the Antigone.Arethusa 5, 93-100 5. Sophocles (1991).Antigone (David Grene, Trans.) University of Chicago Press. 6. Sophocles (1902).Antigone (Richard Jebb, Trans.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.