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if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
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...
"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...
This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...
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...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
This 4 page paper describes Toni Morrison's use of imagery and metaphor in her novel Tar Baby....
a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...
in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...
In five pages this novel's imagery uses are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...
This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...
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...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
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. ...
of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...
her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...
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...