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The Philosophy and Psychology of Sophocles?s Antigone and The Eumenides in Aeschylus? Oresteia


There is a consensus among readers of the poetry or plays written in the fifth century that the plays succeed with inspiring profound movement on the audience. The methods or reasons for the reader to be moved by a text are often disputed. Specific to tragic works the concepts of philosophy and psychology are critical elements to understand the cause of the stirred emotions of individuals who response to classical tragedies in a similar manner. Philosophy helps to understand ?why? and psychology ?how? poetry affects and moves human emotion.

Philosophy and poetry are united by a common intent. Each searches for an explanation of universal ideals instead of concentrating on the particular. Aristotle described this idea in the Poetics, ?Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular? (Aristotle, 68). Sophocles?s Antigone and The Eumenides in Aeschylus? Oresteia are examples... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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