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contrasts dramatically with Antigones ideas, and forms the basis for the conflict that drives the plot. At the core of Creons val...

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

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...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

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...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In three pages this essay examines the patriotism of Creon who thinks he has the support of the gods in this analysis of Antigone....

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

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...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

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

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

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...