Sophocles' “Antigone and Oedipus” are great stories of tragedy and adversity. Creon, Oedipus and Antigone are truly engaged in a lifelong struggle against reality, fate and self-pity. Oedipus the King” is the tragic story of a man of noble structure, but it is triggered by great tragedies and realities of himself that shatter his existence. From the beginning of the story, Oedipus is presented as a noble and caring man. He is very worried about the plague in Thebes "but my spirit is grieved for the city, for me and for you all" he tells the priest and his people of Thebes, but he is also impetuous and suspicious of the motives of his friends ; But these faults cannot be considered a reason for his fall, his sins were committed unintentionally. The older man discovers the truth about his birth from Laius and Jacosta (his mother and wife) and that he is the murderer of his own father. This reality struck his soul and spirit and filled him with a feeling of humiliation and disgust for his own being. He blinds himself and suffers the grief of being exiled from his home and sent away from his family to wander alone and finds his son's main opposing sides in the civil war of Thebe, who died fighting for the throne. “Antigone” is the story of Creon. (brother of Jacosta and the new king of Thebes) and Antigone (the daughter of Oedipus and Jacosta). Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, had decided that Eteocles would be honored and that Polyneices would be in public shame, that the body of the rebellious brother would not be sanctified by sacred rites and that he would lie unburied on the battlefield. , prey to carrion like worms and vultures; the harshest punishment at the time when Antigone wants to bury the body of Polyneices, in defiance of Creon's edict and...... middle of paper ...... compassion for Antigone. Creon had the pity of Oedipus and Antigone, but not their compassion for others, nor their courage of renunciation and self-denial in the name of a higher value. It should be noted that Antigone's suicide does not detract from this conception of her attitude and destiny, since suicide was not considered by the Greeks to be a sin. Oedipus, contrary to Theban's advice, did not choose suicide as punishment, because he believed that his sins were so great that they required an even harsher means of atonement. The heroism of Oedipus and Antigone is based on their faith, on their belief in primordial values; through their sufferings they accomplished the fulfillment of their recognized human obligations to divinity. The relationship between self-sacrifice and renunciation is important, because it is the tragic meaning of an act of self-sacrifice..