Analyze the main characters of Euripides’ and Sophocles’ plays: Heracles, Megara, and Deiainira.

Analyze the main characters of Euripides’ and Sophocles’ plays: Hearacles, Megara, and Deiainira. 

Do the playwrights portray any of these characters as in control of their own fates? If so, what decisions could they have made differently? If not, who or what controlled their fates? [N.B. quotes do not count towards the 300-word requirement]

Sources:

SOPHOCLES
TRACHINIAE
(Women of Trachis)
Translated by Ian Johnston
Vancouver Island University
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Canada
2018


Euripides’ Herakles
Translated by R. Potter
Adapted by Mary Ebbott and Casey Dué

Analyze the main characters of Euripides’ and So

phocles’ plays: Heracles, Megara, and Deiainira. 

Analyze the main characters of Euripides’ and Sophocles’ plays: Heracles, Megara, and Deiainira.