YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Story of Oedipus Rex
Essays 271 - 300
since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...
Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...
Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...
achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...
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...
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...
the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...
both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...
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...
and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...
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...
or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic ...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...
end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...
involved. Julians mother takes center stage as a black woman enters the bus wearing the same hat as his mother. While race certain...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...