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In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

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

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...

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

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

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 five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

This paper examines the classical works represented by Sophocles' Theban plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia in 5 pages. Three sou...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

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...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

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. ...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

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

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

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

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...

will ultimately cause her her life. Antigone pleads and does whatever she can possibly think of to get an honorable burial for ...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

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...