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"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

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...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

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....

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...

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

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

and political metamorphoses where major thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries established themselves. Wha...

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 what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

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 ...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

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

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...

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

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

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

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

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...