YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Philoctetes by Sophocles
Essays 61 - 90
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...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
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. ...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...
a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...
Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
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...
of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...
he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...
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...
declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...