The scream of death in the plays of Sophocles
Keywords:
Sophocles, Tragedies, Recogonition, Scream, DeathAbstract
The plays of Sophocles’ first creative period (Ajax, Antigone, Traquiniae and Oedipus Rex) present the tragic conflict in the last day of their heroes’ lives and the reactions are therefore expressed with great effusiveness and gravity. The verb ????????? connotes the roar of the sea and describes the violent emotion that is produced by the extreme situations in which the characters find themselves. The visceral scream represents the tearing of language and expresses what later must be expressed more specifically by means of speech. Following on from this, the paper presents a study of the concept and of its incidence in the four above mentioned tragedies.
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