The last chapter of this dissertation will focus on Antigone by Sophocles and Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. The topics of loyalty and unfaithfulness have been analysed and discusses by many writers from ancient Sophocles to Shakespeare. These two plays have many similarities and differences as well. According to Moliken, “Antigone has been read and performed for so many years because it raises questions that are pertinent in every age: How much power should the government have? What responsibility does a person have to act in accordance with his or her conscience?” Griffith claims that “the moral issues of right and wrong, responsibility and blame remain open to analysis and debate, both during the progress of the play and after it
