# Loyalty and Betrayal in Philoctetes

> Theme guide for Philoctetes by Sophocles.

The play explores loyalty through Neoptolemus's initial betrayal of Philoctetes' trust, his subsequent guilt, and his ultimate choice to restore the bow, contrasting with Odysseus's pragmatic but disloyal scheming.

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