Essays 331 - 360
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...
The audience sees Oedipus to be a good and caring King, one who has a grasp of right and wrong. Oedipus is also shown to be a bit ...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...
the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to justice. Oedipus swears he will go on this quest to fin...
- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...
to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...
marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...
prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...
contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...
This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...
In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...
In five pages the tales of Oedipus and Jason are analyzed in terms of the differences and similarities that exist between them. T...
did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...
In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...
In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...
In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
In seven pages this essay discusses how Oedipus was able to 'see' certain things after blinding himself, from this knowledge he ga...
In five pages psychosocial development's 5 stages as defined by Freud are discussed along with the growing Oedipus complex controv...
In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...