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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...

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

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

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

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

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

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

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

logical for him to wonder. Oedipus was in fact rescued and brought up by the king. Because he does in reality end up killing a ma...

In five pages Sophocles' Oedipus is examined in terms of the relationship between the fates and the protagonist in a consideration...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

In five pages this paper examines the predestination concept and also discusses if tragic flaws can be overcome in a consideration...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

In five pages this 2nd portion of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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...

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...

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

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

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

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

salary is vastly different, $48,468 for the civilian and $26,967 for the military sergeant but the total package tells another st...

in and curse God. He tells his wife, advising her that, just as they accept good from the hand of God, they have to also be willin...

In six pages this essay considers the psychological, moral, and literary influence Sophocles exerted in his play in a discussion o...

the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...