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The Desire to Die

Misery can lead someone to feel morbid . For those who experience too much pain and misery , death can be a resort to end all sufferings . In Sophocles ' Antigone ' and Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman ' the authors explore on the characters ' wish to end their lives , thinking that this is the best and only option . An analysis of the setting characters , plot , theme and motifs reveals the reasons why the characters are drawn to submit to death

The desire to die

is a recurrent theme in literature from the ancient time to present . Sophocles ' Antigone ' which was written around 442 B .C (Johnston 1 ) gives a typical example of an earlier tragedy dealing with the theme of desire for death . The play appears first in the Theban trilogy of the same author . In this play , the time and place where the play is set affect the events in the life of Antigone and those around her . Set in Thebes , the tragic memoirs of Antigone 's father (Oedipus relevantly affect the attitude and treatment of the people (especially Creon ) towards the two daughters of Oedipus . As Antigone expresses in her conversation with Ismene , Zeus keeps bringing on the two of us , as long as we 're alive ? All that misery which stems from Oedipus (5-8 This shows Antigone 's belief that they are doomed to misery . This feeling later contributes to the decision she makes

Meanwhile , in Arthur Miller 's Death of a...