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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 ...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

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

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

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...

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...