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

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

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

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. ...

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

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

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...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

the characters, in fact, notes that they are there without thought on the part of whoever put them together as they state, it is "...

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

In three pages this paper discusses how irony is used by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men....

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...

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

In five pages tis paper discusses a day in Charlemagne's life from the point of view of one of the King's cautious friends....