The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam

The two stories that can relate to one another by tragedy taking over at the end of the story are: "The tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam" and the "Gilgamesh". Most of the time when there is a hero in a play, it would end with some sort of tragic loss. While a hero can posses special powers, he will use them despite the consequences that he will face afterwards.    

In the story "The tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam", Rostam is the hero of the Persian army, and Sohrab grew up becoming the best fighter of Turan army. Rostam was the father of Sohrab, but unfortunately they never met face to face until the war between Iran and Turan started. Since everyone was scared to fight Rostam, they sent Sohrab to challenge him, but they never told him the challengers name. After a brutal battle Rostam feels like he might lose, and didn't want to ruin his reputation, so he stabbed Sohrab in the heart. He remembers giving Tahmina an bracelet to give to her son, and realizes that this is his son because he is wearing the same bracelet.  From then on, regret and pain stayed with him for rest of his

While in the epic story Gilgamesh, the Gods decide that Enkidu needs to die, because he and Gilgamesh have slain Humbaba the protector of the cedar forest, and the bull of heaven. For most of the part Enkidu was innocent, because Gilgamesh will abuse his un humanlike powers wherever he would go. Once Enkidu passes away Gilgamesh agonizingly cries after Enkidu ,willing to do anything to bring him to life.  He carves a stone with Enkidu's name on it, to show respect and the importance of him being in Gilgamesh's life.

As you can see it's great to be a hero, but when you abuse your powers and let your ego take over, tragic moments will occur.

Lysistrata

The character Antigone is much alike with Lysistrata, they both have a goal set ahead of them. They both would do anything to achieve their goal even if it takes to die. Lysistrata is much stronger then rest of the women i Athena and Sparta. She knows how much she is worth, and that she isn’t just some sort of toy that the guys could abuse. Lysistrata points out how the women were back in the time: “Go in bed with a god and then get rid of the baby-that sums us up”.Her life isn’t revolved around sex while everyone else s is. She wanted to stop the war so bad that she managed to talk the women into joining “Total Abstinence from Sex” and makes them take an Oath.

This relates to Antigone because she would do anything to bury her brother, no matter of the consequences facing her. Antigone shows no fear of death:” I will bury him myself, and even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. Burring her brother is the right thing to do;it shows respect and care, and that’s stronger for her then death. The person truly needs to posses no fear inside themselves and recognize the consequences in order to be as Antigone and Lysistrata. Whats so interesting is that both of these plays took place in a different time, but yet posses people that share “common ideas”.