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

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

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...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Kings plea for assistance in his crusade, Oedipus demands to know why, and is shocked to hear the words, "You are the murderer, yo...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

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

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

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...

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

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...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

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

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...