Antigone

Tragedy elements are that a protagonist has to suffer some kind of separation from his society (e.g., Romeo's banishment); he also has to make some kind of mistake or show bad judgment (e.g., Macbeth listening to the wife). There are usually deaths which more often than not occur at the end of the play in the same way that comedies typically can end in a marriage or a feast.

The Elements:

1-supernatural elements (witches, ghosts)

2-tragic hero: person with noble qualities and a flaw in his character

3-tragic error: some disorder that has been committed against the laws of nature and needs to be corrected.

4-conflict ...with country or with the hero himself

5-revenge ...the hero is usually often revenge or he is being avenged

6-sad ending: the death, downfall or destruction

7-comic relief : some light scenes to relieve the stress of tragic events

8-isolation of main character

last speech of the chorus tells us a person should be remain in his limit and his knowledge is also limited donot struggle to know about his future because human knowledge utter wits flaws

Theban Queen Jocasta comes to make peace between Theban King Oedipus and Theban King Creon. She has personal and professional reasons for her peace making efforts.

Personally, she's related closely to both men. Oedipus is her husband, and Creon her brother.

Professionally, all three are lateral colleagues on the job. All three are involved in a joint power sharing arrangement whereby the rule over Thebes and its citizens is in their three sets of hands. Jocasta realizes that disagreement is disastrous for three people who are close relatives and close colleagues in overlapping personal and work spaces.

Critical and supportive are the respective attitudes of the chorus in regard to Antigone and Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the chorus criticizes Theban Princess Antigone for her disrespectful treatment of King Creon and for her uncontrolled passions. In contrast, they do not criticize Creon for the bullying, insults and threats that typify his interactions with Princess Antigone, Prince Haemon and Teiresias the blind prophet. The chorus members therefore show a consistently critical attitude towards Antigone and a uniformly supportive attitude toward Creon.

Electra Complex is a medical or proper term which means when a daughter in a family, finds her dad sexually attractive.

The term for a son finding his mother attractive is Oedipus Complex.

That he will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother are the prophecies about subsequent Theban King Oedipus. Oedipus' parents, Theban King Laius and Queen Jocasta, receive the first prophecy. They try to prevent its fulfillment by planning to have their three-day-old son die exposed to the weather and wildlife on a hillside.

The grown-up Oedipus receives the second prophecy. He tries to prevent its fulfillment by running away from what he thinks is his hometown of Corinth. But in running away, he kills someone who looks like an elderly version of himself and is old enough to be his father. He then ends up in Thebes, about which he has no memory or knowledge. There, he marries the beautiful, recently widowed Jocasta, who may or may not share a resemblance and who definitely is old enough to be his mother.

And so the prophecies are fulfilled.

A sphinx is a beast with a head of a lion, wings of a great bird, and the torso and head of a woman.

The noun SPHINX:

1. an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

2. (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon

Threatening describes the way in which Oedipus reacts to the shepherd's reluctance to speak in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the shepherd is Theban Queen Jocasta's most trusted servant and the sole survivor of the fatal attack on Theban King Laius and his escort. He therefore has information to give about the identity of Laius' killer and the fate of Laius' and Jocasta's three-day-old infant son. Oedipus has promised to identify and punish Laius' killer, so he has no problems threatening the elderly, frightened shepherd with torture and death.

19th century British literature.

American literature. The Greek epic. The short story. I note that the question refers to the two types. The usual way of classifying literature as two types (and no more) is prose and verse.