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to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

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

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...

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

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

those ruled by determinism. Having grasped the meaning behind Oedipus the King and Othello, it can easily be argued that Oedipus ...

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

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

This paper discusses why Shakespeare's protagonist sufficiently qualifies as being a tragic hero in a consideration of the charact...

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

In ten pages this report discusses the play's tragic characteristics that exist despite its twentieth century setting and the ways...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

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