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In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...
of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...
Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...
individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...
to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...
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...
calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...
modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...
behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...
largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...
on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...
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...
This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...
Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...
is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...
as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...
an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...
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...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...
since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...
Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...
to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...