Jornal entry #5: Sophocles

Sophocles evokes fear specifically in the audience by doing several different things. one thing he does is uses motifs of things that everybody either knows, or can relate to and by doing this he connects to other peoples lives. He first of all often references Nature and the power of nature, which is something that everyone can understand becuase we are all surounded by it. He also uses the gods, which are superior beings that everybody prayed to and everybody could relate to. in order to evoke fear or pity from the audience he creates situations that arent simply "sad" or something completely impossable. he uses things that the audience could see actually happening, or things the audience belives could happen in order to create another connection between what is going on in the play and real life. he also introduces self punishment in the behaviors of his charicters so the audience feels sorry for them. if the charicters didnt feel the need to take responsability for what they have done, then the audience would probibly just dislike the charicters rather than sympathize with them.