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and in order to protect the city and its citizens, Oedipus was compelled to take drastic action. Also, he wished to cement his re...

In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...

murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

In six pages this paper presents a structural analysis of this ancient Greek tragedy and examines how the rising action and confli...

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...

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...

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

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...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

In five pages this paper examines the uses of the chorus and repeating themes in the classical tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, ...

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

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...

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

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