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to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...

the subtle element of inference. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspecti...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

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...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

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...

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

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

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...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

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

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

The audience sees Oedipus to be a good and caring King, one who has a grasp of right and wrong. Oedipus is also shown to be a bit ...

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....

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

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...

who others looked upon with envy, and characters who others judged for their actions and essential character. The paper looks at G...

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

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...

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 ...

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

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...