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When Sophocles is talking about the furrows on the Earth left by the �plows,� he is not literally talking about a plow making furrows on the Earth, but more like that man is the plow, and the furrows of the Earth is the trail of destruction and interruption left behind him as he simply moves along. The �blunt yoke� that is broken, is not actually a yoke but a symbol of the oppression that the animals suffer under the human being. This suffering and oppression is gone when the humans are defeated. The �city� that Sophocles talks about is not a city, but a representation of man and all his accomplishments. Without the obeying of laws, man would not survive. |
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