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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 six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...

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

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

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

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

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...

they protested against the Iraq war at the beginning of 2003, when Iraqis did not have that right. However, common sense would dic...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

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...

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

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

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

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...