Important Quotes from "Oedipus the King"

"Anarchy - show me a greater crime in all the earth! She, she destroys cities, rips up houses, breaks the ranks of spearmen into headlong rout. But the ones who last it out, the great mass of them owe their lives to discipline. Therefore we must defend the men who live by law, never let some woman triumph over us. Better to fall from power, if fall we must, at the hands of a man - never be rated inferior to a woman, never."
- Sophocles
Antigone
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In the world of literature, there is certainly no lack of notable playwrights to create the classic drama that even today is used as an influence for a wide variety of movies and other works of cinema. The question, however, lies in how to distinguish one such playwright from another. In the same manner as authors can develop their own signature and unique style of writing, it seems only natural that playwrights should have that same gift. The challenge, though, lies not in subject matter, but rather in form. After all, a novel or short story offers a large amount of freedom to the writer as to choices on narration, written form, sentence structure, and overall creative format. In direct contrast, the writer of a play or other drama must almost always work within a set format and style. Nonetheless, there are still some great playwrights who have managed to go beyond this limitation and craft their signature style in spite of the difficulties, which lie before them.