On The Artistic Characteristics In Sophocles' Tragedy

Sophocles, a tragic poet from Ancient Greek, has great artistic talent. He is praised as " Homer of theatrical circles ". This article aims at discussing the artistic characteristics of Sophocles' tragedy, and it will be unfolded from the following aspects.First of all, fierce tragic conflict which embodies in the antithesis between people and God, and the conflict among people, reaches great tension and unprecedented height. The article analyzes a conflict between Oedipus and God, Antigone and Gram , thinking that Sophocles' tragic conflict gives tragic existence a kind of new meaning: The individual's ruin can be replaced by the happiness of the collective, what the disappearance of the human body brought is the living forever of spirit. This is an important concept, which generates a decisive impact on formulation and developing of tragic art of later age in the west. This article also thinks the world outlook which emphasizes on individual and human nature has influenced Greek's grieved destiny view, and puts its conflict of drama to great tension.Secondly, on the character and the plot of Sophocles' tragedy, on one hand, the character is a internal cause of development of plot, on the other hand, the plot is the course that the character shows. That is to say, the relation of plot and character is to complement each other closely and densely. Emphasize personages must emphasize the plot, emphasize the plot is to emphasize personages. This chapter still analyzes how meaningful the plot and the personality interact: Enable the human nature and rationality to take a leading place.Moreover, this text thinks the song team in the ancient Greek tragedy is wonderful and even mysterious. The article expounds the cause, the function and the meaning in which the song team in the tragedy produces. Religion origin that tragedy emerges must determine its mystery nature and solemn sense . It was the ideal media that the song team exactly displayed this kind of mystery and built such solemn sense. Such solemn properties of the song team set a kind of mystique to the tragedy too. It makes Greek doubt and fear of destiny. This displays in Sophocles' tragic works particular outstandingly. The function of the song team are: Background of the drama atmosphere; The rational guides of the song team; Emotion regulation of the song team. Finally, the article elaborates Sophocles' status in the history of literature of the world. His tragedy serves as a link between past and future, which offers a very good reference and enlightenment function on the development of tragic art.