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Compare the [causes and reasons of] suffering the protagonists cause to their family and their people in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
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World Literature assignment Batbileg Terbishdagva 08.10.2002 Compare the [causes and reasons of] suffering the protagonists cause to their family and their people in Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. The suffering caused by the protagonists in both plays are directly connected to their actions. Oedipus Rex' fate causes suffering to his people and his relatives, while Agamemnon causes suffering because of his father's action. There are many other reasons that causes suffering, but every reason goes back to the main reasons, fate and father's action. In both plays, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the suffering caused by the protagonists unwillingly targets the families and the people, which eventually leads to the downfall of the protagonist. In Oedipus Rex, the protagonist unwillingly causes suffering. His father Laius, warned by an oracle that Oedipus is cursed to kill his father and marry his mother, tries to avoid the fate and leaves Oedipus on...
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