The French Comparison

In Jean's Antigone there is the theme of happiness being a meaningless point to life, and that it's true purpose is self-fufillment. This existential view on life, commonly adopted during the 1940's after the World Wars. Unable to understand how so many people could lose their lives over something as futile as political borders and a lust for power, people found this view popular. It shows similarities to the theme in Oedipus the King of a lust for power causing tragedy. The two themes show how those who seek power and happiness, materialistic and abstract things, are the victims of the tragedy.