The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero.
The two chapters attempt to prese.
The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends.
In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a Heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same.
The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero