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In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...
In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...
on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...
city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...
This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...
as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...
In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...
In a paper that consists of three pages the elements of these plays are examined in terms of similarities and differences in order...
In three pages the differences and similarities in these two plays are discussed in order to determine if they should be regarded ...
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...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...
In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....
In eight pages these tragic heroes created by William Shakespeare and Sophocles are contrasted and compared. Eight sources are ci...
In five pages this paper discusses these kingly characters and their flaws in a consideration of what value if any their suffering...
In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....
with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
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...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
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...
and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...