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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...

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

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

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...

A critical analysis of Othello's climactic speech is featured in this paper of two pages....

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

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

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

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

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

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

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

In a paper consisting of three pages the protagonist's distinguishing between appearances and reality is assessed in these works b...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...