Sophocles' tragic drama Antigone presents the reader with a full range of characters: static and dynamic, flat and round; they are represented mainly by the technique of projection. In "Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of Antigone", Charles Paul Segal states that there are two protagonists in the drama (which conflicts with this reader's interpretation): is not the case. say that there are no conceptual problems involved in the characters of Creon and Antigone. But the problems are too complex to be satisfactorily reduced to a single antithetical formulation. We must avoid considering the protagonists as one-dimensional representatives of simple oppositions: good and evil, reason and emotion, state and individual, etc. (62). Werner Jaeger in “The Mastery of Sophocles' Character Development” pays the playwright the highest compliment in character development: The indelible impression that Sophocles leaves on us today and his imperishable position in world literature are both due to his character design. 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). .The dialogue, action, and motivation revolve around the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). Sophocles' main characters can surely be said to grow beyond two-dimensionality to become truly rounded physical presences. This is mainly done through the presentation technique, although the choir is sometimes involved in the storytelling technique, revealing various information to the audience. The drama begins with Antigon...... middle of paper ......ment of his edict; 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.