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murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

In five pages this report discusses how Homer, Sophocles, and Hesiod would have conceptualized justice regarding the 911 terrorist...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...