Antigone – Anike in Sophocles’s Greek Theater Play and Wong Phui Nam’s Play

In Antigone by Sophocles, some of the characters existed are Antigone, Creon King of Thebes, her sister Ismene, the two brothers who slaughtered each other, Polyneices and Eteocles. While in Anike by Wong Pui Nam, the characters that took similar role in this play are Anike, Maniaka the Raja, Yasmine, Anike’s sister, the two brothers of Anike one who died in the other’s hand and the other was sentence to death by Maniaka the Raja, Sirat and Wira. The sequence of the play in Anike, they do have lots of similarity in Sophocles’ Antigone. All of the characters also play the same part, only switching their names.
The main characters like Antigone – Anike and Ismene – Yasmine have similar roles but the difference is only Yasmine suggest to Anike to cut down the rope that hang their brother’s corpse, Sirat from the tree and do a proper burial.
The similarity between the character Antigone and Anike is that the character had a very strong will to bury their dead brother. Both characters had strong determined to ensure the brother’s body was buried.