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end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

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...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...

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

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

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...

all the necessary stages in that development would be as futile as Oedipuss attempts to challenge the Fates....

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

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

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....

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

of an omnipotent God, and therefore there is considerable debate as to whether the actions of a human being can be genuinely consi...

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

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

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

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...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

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...

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

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...