Essays 61 - 90
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...
In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...
nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...
In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...
a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...
In five pages this essay discusses the tragic elements of Oedipus the King in terms of plot, the Chorus' role, plot elements, and ...
In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...
watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...
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...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
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...
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...
"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...
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....
in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...
In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...
he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...
his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...