Antigone– CharacterizationThis essay will illustrate the types of characters depicted in Sophocles' tragic drama Antigone, whether they are static or dynamic, flat or round, and whether they are represented by the technique of demonstration or narration. Martin Heidegger in “The Ode to Man in Sophocles' Antigone” explains, in a fairly complex theory, the destruction of Creon's character: The conflict between the overwhelming presence of the essential as a whole and the violent being of man creates the possibility of a fall in the human being. the problemless and placeless: disaster. But disaster and the possibility of disaster do not only occur at the end, when a single act of power fails, when the violent man missteps; no, this disaster is fundamental, it governs and awaits in the conflict between violence and control. Violence against the preponderant power of being must break against being, if being reigns in its essence, as physical, as emergent power (98). The dialogue, action, and motivation revolve around the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). Jaeger, in "Sophocles' Mastery of Character Development," pays the playwright the highest compliment with regard to character development: The indelible impression that Sophocles leaves on us today and his imperishable position in world literature are both due to his character drawing. . If we ask which of the men and women of Greek tragedy have an independent imaginary life outside the very scene and plot in which they appear, we must answer: "those created by Sophocles, before all others » (36). .Surely Sophocles' main characters can be said to grow beyond the two dimensions...... middle of paper ......ment of his edit; he changes after Teiresias's visit and warning. Ismene and Haemon become dynamic later in the tragedy. The playwright rarely uses the chorus to convey information; most of this comes from dialogue exchanges, which would be the presentation technique. WORKS CITED Abrams, MH A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Antigone by Sophocles. Translated by RC Jebb. no page.http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.htmlHeidegger, Martin. “The Ode to Man in Sophocles’ Antigone.” In Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Jaeger, Werner. “Sophocles’ Mastery of Character Development.” In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.