Strength and Weakness
... Oedipus was a leader who had a great strength and made a strong stand against all odds. ... While he finally accepted the reality, he did not face the truth with any strength or positiveness. ... We can see her real strength here. ... h He did not necessarily portray himself to be a man of strength in any true sense of images; he chose to run from this truth and to bury himself in self-pity. ... While each of the characters within these stories addresses completely different issues they are both inherently strong characters that are faced with decisions that will demonstrate their inherent strength or weakness. Antigone proved herself to be a character of strength, where Oedipus proved himself to be weak and indecisive in the face of the truth and the ability to instill his own consequences.