Essays 31 - 60
This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...
Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...
as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...
as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...
having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...
both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...
In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...
In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...
hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...
In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...