Context undoubtedly plays an important role in both the creation and interpretation of literary works, as it determines how the author and audience relate entities to the interior of the literary work with those of reality. Two versions of Antigone, each written by Sophocles and Jean Anouilh, exemplify the influence of context on literary works; although both describe Antigone's struggle to bury her brother Polyneices against Creon's edict, each version revolves around slightly different topics and is perceived differently. Sophocles' Antigone presents the play with Antigone as the obvious protagonist. Fulfilling the final words of the play's chorus that “reverence towards the gods must be safeguarded” (Sophocles 128), Antigone respects the rules of the divine over those of the city until her death and is thus portrayed as a righteous heroine. In the same perspective, Creon is labeled as a reckless tyrant who oppresses Antigone with his earthly power. The Chorus's final observations see him as damned according to which "the words of the proud are repaid in full / with mighty blows of fate" (Sophocles 128); HI...